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The article actually addresses this in the final sentence:

“Nearly half of prime age men who are not in the labor force take pain medication on any given day; and in nearly two-thirds of these cases, they take prescription pain medication.”

I think more prominent than the soybeans/BPA/microplastics kind of causes is just plain old opioid dependence.



... or they suffer from chronic pain, something that is dismissed as "drug seeking" far too often nowadays.




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