Monday, January 22, 2018

P.J. Media: A Nation of Junkies? Study Eschews Economic Despair Opioid Theory

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Why are so many Americans dying of drug overdoses? Maybe it’s because we’re a nation of junkies.
At least that seems to be the finding from a new study that flies in the face of the more widespread view that the opioid crisis is the result of a weak economy.

“The fatal overdose epidemic is likely to primarily reflect drug problems rather than the deaths of despair,” states a report published this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Read more here.

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