Thursday, January 27, 2011

My fears about Barrington, IL teen suicides were confirmed

This weekend while riding the Metra and Union Pacific lines, I met a man who personally knew the parents of three Barrington Consolidated High School heroin over dose deaths; he knew three of the four.

Added to the railroad track suicides, this makes the rate of suicides at Barrington Consolidated High School about 100 per 100,000; in other words, for this one very small age demographic - 15-19, the suicide rate is as high as for Greenland, the suicide capital of the world.

WE SIMPLY MUST TALK TO OUR CHILDREN TO LET THEM KNOW HOW MUCH BETTER IT IS GOING TO GET !!