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Sep 16, 2017

Time of reckoning for US employers over opioid abuse

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The US is in a opioid addiction crisis that has been described as a national epidemic by health officials. Each day 91 people die after overdosing on the drugs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More Americans now die from drug overdoses than in car accidents or from gun violence put together, and more than 2.6m are addicted to opioids, according to CDC figures.


Health insurance system is partly to blame for the epidemic that is costing companies $18bn a year.

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