State-Level Depression Rates Tied To Opioid-Related Deaths, Study Suggests

Healio (10/15, Demko) reports researchers found in an analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “that a 1% point increase in state-level depression diagnoses was tied to a 26% increase in opioid analgesic-related deaths.” The findings were published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

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— “Strong link between depression rates, opioid-related deaths, “Savannah Demko, Healio, October 15, 2018.

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