{"id":5262,"date":"2025-07-12T23:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/ending-988-federal-lgbtq-suicide-prevention-line-public-health\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T23:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:03:45","slug":"ending-988-federal-lgbtq-suicide-prevention-line-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/ending-988-federal-lgbtq-suicide-prevention-line-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Ending the federal LGBTQ+ suicide prevention line is a public health failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: Ending the federal LGBTQ+ suicide prevention line is a public health failure<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last month, the federal government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/about\/news-announcements\/statements\/2025\/samhsa-statement-988-press-3-option\">announced<\/a> it would eliminate the national suicide prevention hotline\u2019s specialized services for LGBTQ+ callers \u2014 a decision that pulls vital support away from some of the most at-risk young people in America. The end of the service on July 17 is a crushing moment, but it should also be a wake-up call.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just a political decision. It\u2019s a public health failure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/12\/ending-988-federal-lgbtq-suicide-prevention-line-public-health\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Jaymes Black and Christine Yu Moutier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/12\/ending-988-federal-lgbtq-suicide-prevention-line-public-health\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Ending the federal LGBTQ+ suicide prevention line is a public health failure Last month, the federal government announced it would eliminate the national suicide prevention hotline\u2019s specialized services for LGBTQ+ callers \u2014 a decision that pulls vital support away from some of the most at-risk young people in America. The end of the service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143,2432,2151,2144,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","category-mental-health","category-policy","category-politics","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}