The Opioid Crisis Invades The Workplace

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

zerohedge
Tyler Durden Dec 31/2017

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https://zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-31/opioid-crisis-invades-workplace

Back in September, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland released a report on the opioid epidemic and the labor market.

The bank looked at trends in overdose deaths and drug use to document how the opioid epidemic has spread across the United States. Officials found that rising overdose death rates are getting worse and “could be large enough to have an impact on the labor force.”

In 2016, more than 64,000 overdose deaths were reported. It’s a grim trend that outpaced traffic deaths and suicides, with most of the increase after 2010, which can be attributed to opioids.