Mitigating firearm suicide with trusted messengers in health care
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2025
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Ulrich MR, Devaney C. Mitigating Firearm Suicide with Trusted Messengers in Health Care. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 2025;53(3):452-453. doi:10.1017/jme.2025.10154
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Voluntary firearm safety actions avoid Second Amendment scrutiny, but rely on individuals recognizing their own risks. This could be aided by a network of healthcare professionals that have received proper training and information about all available tools to help prevent firearm-related suicide attempts, and combining the trust of clinicians and firearm owners could represent an opportunity to inform and educate in a manner that will engage patients.
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.