What is the most urgent health problem currently facing your local community?

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“Drug addiction/abuse (including opioids)” includes opioid abuse/addiction and drug addiction/abuse (general, drug type unspecified, or drug other than opioid specifically mentioned). Open-ended question. No other issues were mentioned by more than 10 percent of rural Americans.

Source: NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “Life in Rural America” survey of 1,300 adults living in the rural United States, conducted June 6-Aug. 4. The margin of error for the full sample is +/- 3.6 percentage points.

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