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Fri August 10, 2018 - Northeast Edition
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health recently released a report showing the impact that opioids have had on the construction industry.
According to the research, almost 25 percent of all opioid-related fatalities across four years happened to workers in the construction industry.
The study looked at the state's death certificate data between 2011 and 2015 to see the number of opioid-related deaths in a variety of sectors, The Architects Newspaper reported. Some notable findings include:
The state's Department of Public Health said that it will have to conduct more research to find out if any of these findings are directly contributing to its opioid crisis, The Architects Newspaper reported. The report did say that Massachusetts plans to address the issue by putting both education and policy intervention programs related to overdose prevention into place, as well as improving workers' compensation programs.
In May, the Department of Public Health reported that opioid-related overdose deaths had declined by around five percent in the first quarter of 2018, compared to the same period of time in 2017, The Architects Newspaper reported.