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Opioid crisis caused almost 1 million to be absent from workforce, cost $700 billion: Study

By Diana Stancy Correll
Published March 27, 2018 9:26pm ET
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Opioid crisis caused almost 1 million to be absent from workforce, cost $700 billion: Study
The amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every American to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. (AP Photo/Chris Post) | (AP Photo/Chris Post)

The opioid addiction crisis caused nearly 1 million to be absent from the workforce in 2015, a new study says.

The American Action Forum, a right-leaning think tank, released a study on Tuesday that revealed 919,400 people between the ages of 25 to 54 were not in the labor force due to opioid use.

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