Study finds correlation between U.S. opioid deaths and auto plant closures
Thursday, January 2, 2020 - 14:10
in Health & Medicine
Dr. Atheendar Venkataramani, the lead author on the UPenn study, and a team of researchers spent about a year combing through a list of all the automotive plants that were in operation in the U.S. since 2000, and comparing plant closure numbers to opioid overdose deaths.