Suicide and Overdoses Cause High Mortality Among Street Youth

Suicide among homosexual youth.

Suicide Attempts and Childhood Maltreatment Among Street Youth: A Prospective Cohort Study.

BACKGROUND Although suicide is a known leading cause of death among street youth, few prospective studies have explored childhood experiences as risk factors for future suicide attempt in this population. We examined the risk of attempted suicide in relation to childhood maltreatment among street youth. METHODS From September 2005 to November 2013, data were collected from the At Risk Youth S...

Youth and Street Racing

In terms of its perceived threat to society, street racing seems to have fallen somewhere between regular traffic offences and car theft. Yet it has little in common with either. So far as I am aware, street racing has not been analysed by previous writers. Thus, not surprisingly, most theories have little to offer such an analysis. The key argument made in this article is that the norms of str...

Suicide Risk Factors among LGBTQ Youth: Review

Suicide is a tragic and costly yet preventable issue in public health that affects people of all races, ethnicities, ages, genders, and sexual orientation in the United States (U.S.) and worldwide. Over the years, suicide has remained the third leading cause of death for youths between 15-24 years of age in the U.S [1]. Suicide and selfinflicting injurious behaviors in LGBTQ adolescents are ass...

Mortality in a cohort of street youth in Montreal.

CONTEXT Many studies have shown a high prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, viral hepatitis, drug dependence, and mental health problems among street youth. However, data on mortality among these youth are sparse. OBJECTIVES To estimate mortality rate among street youth in Montreal and to identify causes of death and factors increasing the...