Healio (6/29, Downey) reports, “In Canada, the poorest residents were 3.8 times more likely to die of opioid-related causes than the country’s richest residents,” investigators concluded in a study that “used three national databases and census data to determine the correlation between income levels and opioid-related health issues between 2000 and 2017.” The findings were published in the June issue of the journal Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada.
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— “Poorer individuals more likely to die of opioid-related causes than rich in Canada “Ken Downey Jr., Healio, June 30, 2022