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Suicide Prevention Starts Before a Crisis

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

September is Suicide Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness about suicide and the ways we can help prevent it. Peter Wyman, PhD, and Kimberly Van Orden, PhD, researchers with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, share how suicide prevention can start long before someone experiences a crisis.

"Upstream" Suicide Prevention

Researchers at University of Rochester Medicine study ways to prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors by strengthening social connections, recognizing warning signs, improving access to support, and developing prevention strategies for different stages of life. Dr. Wyman says prevention needs to extend “upstream”—to strategies that can help keep people from ever reaching a suicidal crisis.

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Experts Warn Suicides are Undercounted in the U.S. | CSPS Co-Founder, Eric Caine, discusses under-reporting in suicide deaths in the United States

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Experts Warn Suicides are Undercounted in the U.S.
An accurate account of suicide burden is needed to develop, implement, and measure prevention efforts
“Most drug overdoses are the result of motivated behaviors and aren't ‘accidents’ in the strict sense. They aren’t completely random events like a tree branch falling on someone’s head,” explained Eric Caine, MD, professor emeritus of Psychiatry and co-founder and past director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide at University of Rochester Medicine. “Recurrent illicit drug use, especially with drugs from unknown sources, is really self‑injury in a public health sense, often leading to death but not accidental death.”

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