Teen Suicide Spiked After Debut Of Netflix's '13 Reasons Why,' Study Says
Boys ages 10-17 killed themselves at a much higher rate in the month after Netflix's show about suicide was released in 2017. Researchers attribute an extra 195 deaths that year to the series.
by Matthew S. Schwartz
Apr 30, 2019
2 minutes
When Netflix's 13 Reasons Why was released two years ago, depicting the life of a teenager who decided to take her own life, educators and psychologists warned the program could lead to copycat suicides. Now, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health shows that those concerns may have been warranted.
In the month following the show's debut in March 2017,, published Monday in the . The number of suicides was greater than that seen in any single monthover the five-year period researchers examined. Over the rest of the year, there were 195 more youth suicides than expected given historical trends.
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