Economic impact of opiod use disorder in Missouri
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"This brief supports University of Missouri Extension's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Rural Opioid Technical Assistance (ROTA) grant. This grant enables the creation of recovery-friendly communities and workplaces throughout the state of Missouri. Educating employers and community leaders about the challenges and consequences of opioid use disorder is an important step in developing Recovery-Friendly communities and workplaces. This brief contributes to these efforts by estimating the economic impacts of workers lost to opioid use disorder in several of Missouri's key industry sectors. Although the opioid crisis presents a very clear societal challenge, it raises many concerns for the labor force. Between 1999 and 2018, almost 450,000 Americans died from both prescription and illicit opioid overdoses, and the majority of these deaths occurred among people of prime working age. Economist Alan Krueger found that almost half of the prime-aged men not in the labor force took pain medication daily, and approximately two-thirds of those taking daily pain medication were using prescription drugs. The loss of these workers from the labor force -- often resulting from injury and subsequent use of pain medication -- has real implications for the U.S. and Missouri workforce. This is especially true for industries (e.g., construction, extraction, healthcare, etc.) that often involve physical work, and where higher injury rates increase the likelihood of opioid prescriptions and use. This report examines the employment consequences and economic impacts of diminished labor force participation in several of Missouri's key industry sectors most affected by opioid use disorder -- agriculture, mining, utilities, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, and healthcare."--Executive summary.
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