One week from today is World Suicide Prevention Day. And National Suicide Prevention Week is September 8 – 14. Did you know that more than 5 million Americans have been directly affected by a suicide? That is just one of many surprising statistics you’ll read in this week’s Medical Examiner cover story, along with several helpful Dos and Don’ts. It’s …
PSA of the Week
This guy is INSANE. DO NOT try this at home. But he does make his point quite effectively.
PSA of the Week
Like our recent (http://www.augustarx.com/news/?p=3245) PSA about texting and driving (see more below), this one is sequential. Multiple images add up to drive the final point home in a very powerful way. Shootings are certainly no rarity in news reports of any city. As a result, a shooting is kind of a yawner, news-wise. It takes something spectacular to get our …
The PSA of the Week
As school resumes for another year, here’s more than two dozen – 26, actually – things to help kids get off to a running start, courtesy of a stellar celebrity cast. Who said this blog isn’t educational? Won’t you shing along? Take it away, Ray.
PSA of the Week
Texting and driving is nothing new. It’s just getting more lethal. Don’t do it!
PSA of the Week
Every Tuesday in this spot we post a PSA. In the truest sense of the word, however, this is not a Public Service Announcement. It has no inspiring music. It will not make you cry. It will not make you feel like making a donation to starving children. It will not inspire you to change the world. It is not …
PSA of the Week
Warning: POWERFUL STUFF FOLLOWS Have you seen this PSA? It’s one of a potent series about texting and driving sponsored by AT&T called It Can Wait. If you’re thinking texting and driving is illegal in Georgia, you’re right. But so is speeding, and that fact hasn’t exactly eliminated speeding, has it? The message about the dangers of texting and driving …
The PSA of the Week
This is certainly graphic. It definitely gets its point across.
PSA of the Week
Boy and girls, think before you tweet, IM, Instagram, Facebook, text or sext. The consequences can be far reaching. This is a commercial for a longer film, but even this brief clip offers some good advice and serious food for thought.
The PSA of the Week
As this Public Service Announcement from Brazil suggests, if you won’t quit smoking to prevent cancer or stroke, why not to prevent bad breath? Works for us.