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The Opioid Crisis Comes to the Workplace

The number of Americans dying at work due to overdoses is increasing at a rapid clip.
Source: David Goldman / AP

Addiction to prescription pain medication has taken a staggering toll on America: According to one accounting, overdoses killed more people in one year than guns and car accidents combined.

Tens of thousands of Americans are dying each year from overdoses. It’s a grim trend that has touched just about every aspect of life—even, as the from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate, work. While traffic accidents, homicides, and suicides the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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