作者
Ju Nyeong Park, Saba Rouhani, LEO Beletsky, Louise Vincent, Brendan Saloner, Susan G Sherman
发表日期
2020/9
期刊
The Milbank Quarterly
卷号
98
期号
3
页码范围
700-746
简介
Policy Points
- This article reconceptualizes our understanding of the opioid epidemic and proposes six strategies that address the epidemic's social roots.
- In order to successfully reduce drug‐related mortality over the long term, policymakers and public health leaders should develop partnerships with people who use drugs, incorporate harm reduction interventions, and reverse decades of drug criminalization policies.
Context
Drug overdose is the leading cause of injury‐related death in the United States. Synthetic opioids, predominantly illicit fentanyl and its analogs, surpassed prescription opioids and heroin in associated mortality rates in 2016. Unfortunately, interventions fail to fully address the current wave of the opioid epidemic and often omit the voices of people with lived experiences regarding drug use. Every overdose death is a culmination of a long series of policy failures and lost opportunities for harm …
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