CBS News (11/1, Cerullo) reported on its website, “Construction workers and miners are used to physically demanding, often dangerous work. Yet these jobs may also expose hard-hats to another risk: substance abuse.” The piece continued, “A recent study found that workers in these industries are more likely than other workers to use opioids and cocaine. A little over 3% of those employed in the construction trade and extraction industry had used non-prescription opioids over the past month, compared to 2% of other types of workers, according to the research, which was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.”
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— “Construction workers and miners are the most likely to use opioids, “Megan Cerullo, CBS News, November 1, 2019