Menu
Inshorts
For the best experience use inshorts app on your smartphone
inshortsinshorts
Hip hop song '1-800-273-8255' may have prevented hundreds of suicides in US: Study
short by Pragya Swastik / on Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
Rapper Logic's song titled '1-800-273-8255', the number of the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, may have prevented hundreds of suicides in the US. A study found there were nearly 10,000 more calls to the lifeline from the song's release in April 2017 to Grammys 2018. Additionally, there was a 5.5% reduction in suicides among 10 to 19-year-olds during the period.
read more at Hindustan Times