Researchers affiliated with the Harvard Pop Center have published a study that focuses on counties with a large share of the population employed in the manufacturing sector, finding a link between automobile assembly plant closures and deaths by opioid overdose among working-age adults. Study authors include faculty member (and former Harvard RWJF scholar) Alexander Tsai, MD, PhD, and Rourke O’Brien, PhD, also a former Harvard RWJF scholar. Other study authors include: Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, and Elizabeth Bair, MS.
Is there a link between opioid overdose mortality rates and automobile assembly plant closures in the U.S.?
