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What would it really take to solve the overdose epidemic in the United States? [Commentary] (2024)
Auteur(s) :
RIVERA, B. D. ;
FRIEDMAN, S. R.
Année
2024
Page(s) :
art. 104435
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Autres substances / Other substances ; Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
SAN (Santé publique / Public health)
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Thésaurus mots-clés
OPIOIDES
;
SURDOSE
;
MORTALITE
;
SOCIAL
;
PRESCRIPTION MEDICALE
;
EVOLUTION
;
POLITIQUE
Autres mots-clés
Résumé :
The high overdose mortality rates in the United States poses several questions: Why have they been increasing exponentially since 1979? Why are they so high? And how can they be greatly reduced? Building on past research, the causes of the increase seem to be deeply rooted in US social and economic structures and processes, rather than due only to opioid prescription patterns or the advent of synthetic opioids. Given this, we consider what changes might be needed to reverse the exponentially-increasing overdose mortality. We use a path dependency argument to argue that the United States political, economic, and public health systems have helped create this crisis and, unfortunately, continue to heighten it. These same systems suggest that proposals to expand harm reduction and drug treatment capacity, to decriminalize or legalize drugs, or to re-industrialize the country sufficiently to reduce "communities of despair" will not be enacted at a scale sufficient to end the overdose crisis. We thus suggest that in the United States serious improvements in overdose rates and related policies and structures require massive social movements with a broad social change agenda. [Author's abstract]
Affiliation :
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University School of Public Health, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
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