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Why the creators of '13 Reasons Why' should pay attention to the spike in suicide-related Google searches

  • Written by Jon-Patrick Allem, Research Scientist, University of Southern California
imageAs the show's popularity surged, interest in suicide also grew.Nick Lehr/The Conversation via www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-NC-SA

Does it matter that people seem to have become more interested in suicide – expressing more suicidal thoughts, while becoming more likely to research ways to commit or prevent suicide – in the wake of the...

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