Opioid Deaths Reise When Auto Plants Close, Study Shows [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/4/2012:00 PM

By Niraj Chokshi, The New York Times, December 30, 2019

The last two decades have brought both a sharp decline in automaking jobs in the United States and the rise of a deadly epidemic of opioid abuse. According to a new study, the two trends may well be related.

The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that opioid deaths were about 85 percent higher among people of prime working age in counties where such factories remained open.

The finding underscores the role that economic despair may play in eroding public health.

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