Did <em>13 Reasons Why</em> Spark a Suicide Contagion Effect?
A new study reveals that internet searches for suicide skyrocketed in the wake of the show’s release.
Within days of the release of , Netflix’s teen-oriented drama about a high-school student who takes her own life, the show was being loudly by suicide-prevention experts, who were concerned it could lead to a suicide-contagion effect and a spate of copycat attempts. Now, research published at the end of July argues that those concerns may have been founded. Google queries about suicide rose by almost 20 percent in 19 days after the show came out, representing between
