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How much more likely optimistic people are to be in "ideal cardiovascular health" than pessimistic people are, according to a new study in the journal Health Behavior and Policy Reviewopens in new window.
876
The number of U.S. teens who died of suicide by firearm in 2013, according to a Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence analysis of fatal injury data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's the highest number of teen suicides by firearm since 2001, according to the report.
$2.93 billion
How much more Medicaid, Medicare and private insurers pay to treat patients with chronic medical and co-morbid mental health/substance use disorder conditions compared with patients without the co-morbid conditions, according to an analysis by the National Council for Behavioral Health.
71%
The percentage of Americans who believe that mental health and addiction in the United States is a "serious problem" and requires "significant" or "radical" changes, according to a public opinion pollopens in new window commissioned by the Kennedy Center for Mental Health Policy and Research at the Morehouse University School of Medicine.
