Document Type
Article
Publication Title
West Virginia Law Review
Publication Date
2018
Page Number
1025
Keywords
legal strategies to expand employment, entrepreneurship, substance use disorder
Disciplines
Labor and Employment Law | Law
Abstract
Substance use disorders, which afflict nearly 8% of the U.S. population,' exact a devastating human and economic toll. The opioid epidemic has caused overdose deaths to quadruple since 1999.2 In 2013 alone, the epidemic imposed an economic burden of over $78.5 billion, including $28.9 billion in spending on health care and substance abuse treatment. These burdens increasingly fall on rural and under-resourced areas, particularly in the Appalachian region. The crisis has evoked a range of policy reforms to prevent addiction, investments in treatment for sufferers, and lawsuits against purveyors of addictive substances.
Recommended Citation
Lauren Rogal,
Legal Strategies for Economic Empowerment of Persons in Recovery, 120 West Virginia Law Review. 1025
(2018)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/895