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Price of Addiction: Opioid abuse hits employers hard in Oregon, nationally

May 7, 2015
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Portland Business Journal, May 7, 2015 A new study quantifies the amount opioid misuse costs U.S. employers: $25.6 billion a year. Of that amount, $10 billion is from lost work and productivity alone, according to Healthenic, a Seattle-based analytics company that helps employers identify health savings.Healthentic reviewed population data from 2011 to 2014 and identified […]

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