Spike in US teen suicides after Netflix ’13 Reasons Why’ release – study

The suicide rate among US teenagers spiked in the months after the release of the controversial Netflix drama “13 Reasons Why”, which follows the story of a high school girl who kills herself, a new study has found.

According to the new study, researchers estimated there were an additional 195 suicide deaths — an increase of nearly 29 percent — among 10 to 17 year-olds in the nine months after its release. Author of the report Jeffrey Bridge, who led the research team from the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio, told AFP that the Netflix drama portrayed the lead character’s suicide in a sensationalized manner.

“The results of this study confirmed concerns about how the series disregarded best practice guidelines for depicting suicide in the media.”

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