OTTAWA – Suicide was the third leading cause of Canadian military deaths after motor vehicle accidents and cancer in a newly published study of 25 years of death records.
Even though the jury is out on whether suicide prevention programs work, Lt.-Col. Homer Tien, a trauma surgeon and the lead author of the study, says the military must do its best to try to prevent suicide, alcohol abuse and smoking.
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