The Portland Press Herald spoke with Marcella Sorg, a research professor of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, for the article, “Suicide rate climbing among middle-aged Mainers.” The number of Mainers who killed themselves in the 45–64 age group increased from 47 in 1999 to 102 in 2013 before declining
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