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Injured Workers Showed Lowest Rates of Illicit Drug Use

By Jim Sams (Senior Editor)

Monday, September 10, 2012 | 1

If one were to compare prescription opioid users whose medical bills are paid by Medicaid, Medicare, private health insurance, workers' compensation or out of the patient's own pocket, which group do you think would be the most likely to also be using illicit drugs?The bias among workers' compensation professionals may be the injured workers, but in fact, a study by national drug-testing laboratory Ameritox found that workers' compensation patients were actually the least likely of those groups to test positive for recreational drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, PCP, amphetamines ...

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