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Mortality rates and rate ratios (with all other occupations as the reference group) were calculated based on the occupation of the workers according to drug type. Poisson regression was used to determine significantly elevated mortality rates and trends in drug poisoning deaths by occupation and drug type.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The rate of drug poisoning deaths increased from 2010 to 2016 after which they plateaued. With respect to specific substances, fentanyl- and cocaine-related deaths increased throughout the surveillance period. For drug poisoning deaths overall, workers in construction trades (3,017); food preparation and serving (1,116); transportation and material moving (1,062) occupations had the highest number of drug poisoning deaths. When adjusting for age, sex, race\/ethnicity, and educational attainment, workers in 7 occupations had significantly elevated mortality rate ratios for drug poisonings overall: farming, fishing, and forestry (3.42, P &amp;lt; 0.001); construction trades (2.58, P &amp;lt; 0.001); health care support (1.61, P &amp;lt; 0.001); community and social service (1.60, P &amp;lt; 0.001); food preparation and serving related (1.54, P &amp;lt; 0.001); personal care and service (1.37, P &amp;lt; 0.001); and arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (1.21, P = 0.010). In many cases, workers in these same occupations had elevated mortality rate ratios for poisonings from specific substances. Health care practitioners and technical occupation workers only had elevated rates for methadone-related poisonings (1.73, P = 0.010).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>These findings highlight that workers in certain occupations have an elevated risk for drug poisonings and that the patterns differ with respect to the drug type. These findings can be useful for providing services to workers in high-risk occupations and in identifying occupational factors that may be related to the risk of drug poisoning death. While previous research has begun to uncover work-related factors that may contribute to opioid use, further work is needed to identify occupational factors that may contribute to psychostimulant and benzodiazepine use.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/annweh\/wxae001","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,23]],"date-time":"2024-02-23T00:06:07Z","timestamp":1708646767000},"page":"243-255","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Drug poisoning deaths by occupation and drug type, Massachusetts 2010\u20132019"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"68","author":[{"given":"Sahith","family":"Kaki","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Premedical Health Studies Program, School of Arts and Sciences, MCPHS University , 179 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 , United States"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7823-8153","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Devan","family":"Hawkins","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Program, School of Arts and Sciences, MCPHS University , 179 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 , United States"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,22]]},"reference":[{"issue":"11","key":"2024031513262583900_CIT0001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"993","DOI":"10.1136\/jech-2019-212703","article-title":"Effort\u2013reward imbalance and long-term benzodiazepine use: longitudinal findings from the CONSTANCES cohort","volume":"73","author":"Airagnes","year":"2019","journal-title":"J Epidemiol Commun Health"},{"issue":"1","key":"2024031513262583900_CIT0002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"119","DOI":"10.2105\/AJPH.2018.304734","article-title":"Work-related stressors and increased risk of benzodiazepine long-term use: findings from the CONSTANCES population-based cohort","volume":"109","author":"Airagnes","year":"2019","journal-title":"Am J Public Health"},{"key":"2024031513262583900_CIT0003","first-page":"733","article-title":"Suicide and drug-related mortality following occupational injury","volume-title":"Am J Ind Med","author":"Applebaum","year":"2019"},{"issue":"1","key":"2024031513262583900_CIT0004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2458-7-229","article-title":"Occupation recorded on certificates of death compared with self-report: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study","volume":"7","author":"Bidulescu","year":"2007","journal-title":"BMC Public Health"},{"key":"2024031513262583900_CIT0005","volume-title":"Substance use and substance use disorder, by industry. 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