A new study has found a link between the rate of depression in the U.S. and opioid-related deaths.
“For every additional 1 percent of the population that has a depression diagnosis, we see between a 25 and 35 percent increase in the number of opioid overdose deaths,” said Dr. Laura Schwab Reese, an assistant professor of health and kinesiology at Purdue University, who led the study.
“We thought maybe suicide was driving this, but we sectioned out unintentional overdose and found that...
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