Astronauts and addiction: Ending the stigma (op-ed)

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Astronauts sometimes face the gravest threats after they return to Earth. Facing depression, alcoholism and substance abuse in general, astronauts are not immune from addiction.

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"it is not uncommon for doctors to write an opioid prescription to treat this ailment."
"(CDC) reports that 47,600 overdose deaths, or 67.8% of all overdose deaths in 2017, were due to opioids."

Bad form - correlation is not causation.
"In a study examining more than 2,900 fatal overdoses in Massachusetts, researchers found that only 1.3 percent of decedents had an active prescription for the opioid detected in their system on the day they died."