Matthew Sleeth

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  Oct 23, 2021

  The next epidemic is worse than the first

  America’s suicide rate now ties the all-time high experienced in the Great Depression of the 1930s: 14.5 per 100,000 per year. But if we look more closely, we quickly see that our current situation is far worse.

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  May 13, 2021

  Suicide prevention: 3 approaches for engaging faith communities

  As a former ER physician, I am disturbed that suicidal families are often left in limbo for days in emergency rooms across the nation until a psychiatric bed opens. As a pastor, I am equally disturbed that there is an effective partner that has largely failed to deploy its resources to help: the church.