Experts say to be cautious in reading a new study connecting 13 Reasons Why with a jump in young male suicide

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A recent study made headlines this week after finding there was a 28.9% jump in suicide rates in boys ages 10 to 17 in the month after 13 Reasons Why premiered in 2017. “It’s certainly a curious association, and it looks like the analysis they did in the study was pretty thoughtful,” says Victor Schwartz, the medical director at the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit organization that focuses on mental health and suicide prevention for teens. “It really shows that something happened that April that was different from other Aprils. It might not be the show, it might be something environmental, but there’s no other obvious thing that’s changed.”