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15: The percentage of people who know about the national suicide prevention hotline and correctly identified its number as 988 in a September survey, which is quite low, but a slight increase from October 2023. Back in June, the federal government launched an eight-month ad campaign to increase public awareness. 

Science: In a setback for Schizophrenia, Emraclidine, a drug AbbVie picked up in its $9 billion acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics, failed to significantly help Schizophrenic patients in two clinical trials. Three doses of the drug did not outperform the placebo after six weeks of treatment. 

Sport: Turkey day betting on everything from this year’s Lions football game to the size of Macy’s floats is expected to be the largest in the history of the Thanksgiving holiday, but there’s a catch. Click here

Policy: Check out this panel discussion I moderated on rural health policy and unmet needs to improve access to behavioral healthcare in rural America. Link here.

Perspective: This is basically the one year anniversary of the day we almost killed grammy. For a look back, click here.

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