The economy has been getting better for close to a decade now, and we have seen the opioid use rate skyrocket during that time. If it was tied to the economy, w

The economy has been getting better for close to a decade now, and we have seen the opioid use rate skyrocket during that time. If it was tied to the economy, why were those two trend lines moving in the same direction? I think (without bothering to do any research to source my claim beyond my personal experience as a paramedic, and the sources available in the article) that the widespread availability of Naloxone (and other harm reduction based policies) are far more likely to be the cause of the decrease.