The link between job quality and "deaths of despair"

In recent years, Canada has seen troubling increases in what researchers call “deaths of despair,” fatalities caused by suicide, drug poisoning, and alcohol use. An ongoing study from the Institute for Work and Health (IWH) explores the connection between these deaths and job quality. To date, the findings have revealed that workers in low-quality, unstable work situations face much higher risks of dying from these causes than those in well-paid, stable jobs.