This article is about escalating claims in group life insurance plans, not death rates in general.
How many “meth heads” are (1) employed, and (2) employed by a company that offers group life insurance to their employees?
In poor areas of West Virginia and SE Ohio you would be surprised.There are no other employees so the employers have to hire at the bottom of the barrel.
A plastics factory in Wheeling has a bus that goes to a local homeless shelter and brings them in to work than takes them back home to the shelter at the end of day.
And by meth heads does not mean the typical ones you see on the news.Many use drugs in my area and still work.