Vandoros S, et al. - Via this study, researchers sought to determine the correlation between unemployment and opioid prescribing using data from the GP prescribing database in England for the period 2011–2017. They followed the ordinary least squares (OLS) model and identified a correlation of an increase in the unemployment rate by 1 percentage point with 0.017 additional opioid defined daily doses per capita—a 0.9% rise compared with the mean of 1.745. Per these findings, unemployment influences opioid prescribing volume in England indicating yet another negative impact of unemployment on health. A possible protective role of relevant labour market policies against opioid use was suggested.