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The 988 Suicide Crisis Lifeline: Spreading Awareness and Saving Lives One Year In

988 Suicide Prevention Lifeline

988 is a national suicide prevention hotline providing support to those experiencing mental distress. Learn more about it’s impact here.

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Prince Harry Healing from Trauma of Losing Mother, Working to End Mental Health Stigma

Twenty years after his mother’s death, Prince Harry is opening up about how the loss has affected his life and his work to end mental health stigma.

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Addiction Is Not A Moral Failure… It’s a Brain Disorder

Dr. Nora Volkow, neuroscientist and Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Addiction has been widely viewed as the result of poor self-control and personal behavioral choices. In this TEDMED talk, Dr. Volkow discusses how images of the human brain provide insight into the role of the chemical dopamine.

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