Columbia: Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
found that employment status is a factor in nonmedical use of
prescription opioids and prescription stimulants. Unemployed workers had
the highest risk of misusing prescription opioids, and those out of the
workforce entirely were most at risk for misusing prescription
stimulants. The study is among the first to analyze the
relationship between employment status and nonmedical prescription
drug-users over the age of 25 and show how social characteristics
influence nonmedical prescription drug use. The findings are published
online in the journal
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
