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Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, is Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine.
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Jeffrey W. Swanson is an American medical sociologist and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. He is an expert in psychiatric epidemiology, especially as regards the epidemiology of violence and serious mental illness.

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Question 2 is a necessary next step to prevent gun violence in Maine | Opinion Original

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By Jeffrey Swanson, David Joyce, Scott Paida Verified
| CentralMaine.com Audio Stories
Jeffrey W. Swanson, Ph.D., is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine and a faculty affiliate of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law. David B. Joyce, JD, DrPH, is an attorney in Portland. In 2019, Maine enacted a “yellow flag” law to authorize temporary firearm removal from individuals in mental health crisis. It was a good-faith bipartisan compromise — an effort to balance public safety with civil liberties.
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A Case Study of Maine's Risk‐Based Firearm Removal Law

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By David Joyce, Jeffrey Swanson
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Policy Points Risk-based firearm removal laws are an effective policy tool to reduce firearm-related suicides. Unlike 21 other states with such laws, Maine's firearm removal statute applies only to persons who have been detained by law enforcement in a short-term mental health hold, and it requires an assessment for dangerousness by a medical provider. Maine's approach illuminates barriers to implementation and use of risk-based firearm removal policies.
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Preventing Firearm Tragedies by the Numbers

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By Jeffrey Swanson
| JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) Verified
The sound of my grandmother’s trembling voice lingers from that winter morning, almost 40 years ago now, when she called with awful news. My beautiful cousin Kristin had come home from college for the holidays and killed herself with a shotgun. Kristin was a decade my junior, a homecoming princess and a talented pianist with a mischievous smile and whimsical sense of humor. To me, she was like a little sister.
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