The first psychological-autopsy study in the world to focus on the causes of the elevated rates of suicide among Inuit in Nunavut has found high rates of childhood sexual and physical abuse, depression, and alcohol and marijuana abuse in the histories of 120 people who took their own lives between 2003 and 2006.
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