Lock it up to save a loved one’s life

Physicians urge adoption of medication, firearm lockboxes to help limit adolescent suicide risk at home

By Tracy Brawley September 13, 2018 Portland, Oregon

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Lockboxes and locking bags can provide secure storage for guns as well as medicines, two of the leading mechanisms of suicide in the U.S. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Suicide prevention

Lockboxes and locking bags can provide secure storage for guns as well as medicines, two of the leading mechanisms of suicide in the U.S. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Suicide prevention

Lockboxes and locking bags can provide secure storage for guns as well as medicines, two of the leading mechanisms of suicide in the U.S. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Kyle Johnson, M.D. (2018)

Kyle Johnson, M.D., professor in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at the OHSU School of Medicine and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)