Open AccessAssociation Between Automotive Assembly Plant Closures and Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States
Author(s) -
Atheendar Venkataramani,
Elizabeth F. Bair,
Rourke O’Brien,
Alexander C. Tsai
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jama internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14
H-Index - 342
eISSN - 2168-6114
pISSN - 2168-6106
DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.5686
Subject(s) - medicine , opioid overdose , drug overdose , mortality rate , poison control , demography , injury prevention , environmental health , opioid , surgery , (+) naloxone , receptor , sociology
Fading economic opportunity has been hypothesized to be an important factor associated with the US opioid overdose crisis. Automotive assembly plant closures are culturally significant events that substantially erode local economic opportunities.
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