Among people prescribed ADHD medication in 5 health systems, recorded self-harm was most common in the 3 months before their first prescription, not after it.1 Risk fell once treatment began but stayed a little above each person’s unmedicated baseline. Research Highlights Highest risk before the first prescription: in the 90 days before starting ADHD medication, …
A 2026 preprint combining 2,189 university participants with 477 clinical patients with problematic sexual behavior found a gender-specific self-harm signal: women with problematic sexual behavior had higher non-suicidal self-injury risk, but clinical severity of problematic sexual behavior did not predict NSSI inside the patient cohort.1 Research Highlights Total sample was 2,666 people: Jiang et al. …
A 2026 systematic review of 16 articles found that youth social-media suicide risk clustered around specific mechanisms, not raw screen time: emotional dysregulation appeared in 8 studies, social contagion or imitation in 6, and problematic social-network or gaming use in 4.1 Research Highlights Mechanisms beat screen-time panic: Martin-Calvete and Ramirez-Ucles screened 295 records, assessed 55 …