Opioid Overdose Deaths More Likely Among Massachusetts Residents Injured at Work, New Mass. Public Health Dept. Report Finds
May 24, 2024
May 24, 2024
BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued the following news release on May 23, 2024:
Working-age Massachusetts residents who died between 2011 and 2020 were 35 percent more likely to have died of an opioid-related overdose if they had previously been injured at work, according to a new report (https://www.mass.gov/doc/opioid-related-overdose-deaths-among-injured-workers-in-massachusetts-findings-from-the-public-health-data-wareho . . .
Working-age Massachusetts residents who died between 2011 and 2020 were 35 percent more likely to have died of an opioid-related overdose if they had previously been injured at work, according to a new report (https://www.mass.gov/doc/opioid-related-overdose-deaths-among-injured-workers-in-massachusetts-findings-from-the-public-health-data-wareho . . .