We dig into the most detailed data ever released on how your job is linked with your chances of overdose -- and find some surprising connections.
Paramedics try to save a woman outside her apartment in San Diego after a suspected fentanyl overdose in November. deaths in America have doubled since 2015. They’ve more than quintupled since 2001. As we struggle to understand the risk factors, could we be overlooking jobs?
This is the first time the CDC has published such comprehensive and detailed numbers linking jobs and overdoses, which the authors separatelywas made possible by “funeral directors across the country who take time to speak with decedents’ loved ones and record on the death certificate.” This first release lacks data from D.C. and a few states , but the data gaps should close in coming years.1 out of every 5 people who died of an overdose in 2020 usually worked in construction or restaurants.
All of these cataclysmic outcomes seem to be deeply entwined with social problems that have accumulated over decades — and probably would take just as long to unpack. But UCLA’s Friedman mentioned something about the jobs data we just couldn’t shake: Well-off Americans also do drugs. They just aren’t nearly as likely to die from them.
When we looked more broadly at the individual, detailed occupations in which workers are most likely to die from drugs — whether work-related or not — we saw a similar pattern. Commercial anglers and sailors are even more likely to die of an overdose than roofers by this metric, and forest and conservation workers aren’t far behind.
. But those classic patients are being replaced by “younger adults — late teens, early 20s, mid-20s — who are trying fentanyl for the first time.”These patients “haven’t progressed their way from pain medicine. They’re not following that traditional trajectory that we saw through 2010-2015,” Baca-Atlas said. “We’re seeing people just straight going to a pressed pill” of fentanyl
Consider naloxone, the active ingredient in the nasal spray Narcan, which can reverse an overdose in almost miraculous fashion. In aof more than 700,000 pharmacy claims, Pacula, along with Evan Peet and David Powell of the Rand Corp., found that an American with private insurance paid an average of $28 for the drug in 2014. By 2018, it averaged $35. But if that American didn’t have insurance?on the wrong end of America’s education divide.
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