The Link Between Opioids and Unemployment [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/19/174:00 AM

In 2015, more Americans died from drug overdoses than from car accidents and gun homicides combined. That’s according to a startling interactive story published by The New York Times recently, which also noted that since 1990, drug-overdose deaths have increased by 500 percent.

A new study suggests unemployment might be one of the factors behind that dramatic rise. The paper, published by NBER last week, finds that as the unemployment rate increases by one percentage point in a given county, the opioid-death-rate rises by 3.6 percent, and emergency-room visits rise by 7 percent.

[For more of this story, written by Olga Khazan, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/he...-and-opioids/523281/]

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