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What's wrong with Wyoming?

Aug 4 2009
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Wyoming has the highest rate of suicide in the country. Why is that? The small towns, the wind, the guns? If you or someone close to you has been affected by suicide, we want to know. Let it out!

Does Wyoming Fail?

May 5 2009
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Cheyenne’s Tribune Eagle newspaper recently ran a story with the headline “Mental health in Wyo. gets ‘F.’” That’s an “F” for “Fail”.  This report says our mental health in Wyoming has decreased in the past three years. Do we deserve a failing grade? What does that even mean?

Trigger Happy in Wyo

May 5 2009
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According to the Harvard School of Mental Health, states with more guns have higher rates of suicide. We have a lot of guns of Wyoming. Does that make it more likely or easier for people to kill themselves here?

Explosive Devices in Wyoming and Iraq

May 1 2009
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Check out the IED in Wikipedia it it will tell you about the "improvised explosive devices" that are blowing up our troops in Iraq.  Not too many of those laying around Wyo luckily, but there's another kind of "IED" out there you have probably seen.

Suicide. Why is it is the 2nd biggest killer of young adults in Wyoming?

Sep 1 2008
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Depression, isolation, exclusions, frustration, guns, drugs booze. What up?

Tourism is the #2 industry in Wyoming—tons of people come to this state every year because it’s uncrowded, open, and full of beautiful landscape.

But what happens to the people who have to wake up every day to life in Wyoming. What is it about this place that hits young male adults between 15 and 24 so hard that they pick up a gun, put it to their head and pull the trigger to get away from it?

You don’t need all the answers to help. Lets start with an opinion.

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