Self-injury on the rise among young people

Self-inflicted injuries appear to be on the rise, with some young people actually embedding objects in their skin. Stress may be a factor. The revelation was shocking enough. That a growing number of teenagers and young adults deliberately embed needles, paper clips or staples in their skin may have seemed unthinkable before an Ohio radiologist presented disturbing proof at a medical meeting Wednesday.

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