Poisoning and Self-Injury Mortality: Can Reclassification of Drug Deaths Lead to Improved Prevention?
February 17, 2017
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Weekly Spark,
Weekly Spark Announcement
The Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention (ICRC-S) is hosting a webinar on poisoning and self-injury mortality. It will be led by presenters Ian Rockett, professor of epidemiology at the West Virginia University School of Public Health, and Eric Caine, director of ICRC-S and co-director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide at the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Psychiatry. Topics will include suicide misclassification, death from drug self-intoxication, and efforts to prevent self-injury mortality. The webinar will take place on March 1 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET