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I study teen suicide and believe clinical science can predict who is at risk

  • Written by Adam Bryant Miller, Research Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Suicide is a growing health problem.KieferPix/Shutterstock.com

People often ask me what I do for a living. In the past, I would start with something vague, saying things like “I’m a researcher; I work at the university. I work with teenagers.” Inevitably, people wanted to know more. And then I told them, “Actually, I...

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