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Title: A Painful Epidemic: Today's opioid problem
*Author:* Julie Cook Ramirez
*Source:* As today's opioid problem rapidly spreads into the workplace, employers must tread carefully as they seek out a remedy.
*Date:* June 5, 2017
*Summary:* 35 percent of American adults were prescribed opioid painkillers in 2015. When you factor in the number of people who obtained such drugs by other means -- from friends, relatives or drug dealers -- more people use prescription painkillers than cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or cigars, combined. Link: http://bit.ly/2tAtwSU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library
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