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ANNUAL REPORT
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Manner: Suicide 2003
A suicide is a death resulting from a self-inflicted injury which was the result of an explicit or implicit purpose to end one’s life. In 2003, 84 deaths in Hamilton County were ruled suicides, accounting for 8 percent of the deaths investigated by this office. A substantial decrease from the 111 suicides in 2002. In 38 percent of such cases the suicidal means was a handgun. In 27 of the suicides or 29 percent, postmortem toxicology analysis revealed the presence of alcohol and/or a drug or drugs of abuse, down from 33 percent last year.
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