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Preventing Firearm-Related Suicide Deaths Among Youth—Action Is the Antidote to Despair

JAMA Network Open 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.26844

August 05, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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Corresponding Author: Tami D. Benton, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia3400 Civic Center Blvd. The HUB for Clinical Collaboration, 12th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (bentont@chop.edu).

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