Eight Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Social Determinants of Health
A whole-person response to OUD and other substance use disorders needs a well-coordinated whole-of-government response.
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Read more: Six Opportunities to Use the Law to Support Harm Reduction Six Opportunities to Use the Law to Support Harm Reduction
Shovel-ready actions that could be taken to support the harm reduction response to the opioid crisis.
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Read more: Seven Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Drug Policing Seven Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Drug Policing
Shovel-ready actions that could be taken to reimagine drug policing response to the opioid crisis.
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Read more: Five Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Persistent OUD Treatment Gaps Five Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Persistent OUD Treatment Gaps
Highlighting legal opportunities to facilitate access to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment.
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Read more: When it comes to opioids, it’s all about turf. When it comes to opioids, it’s all about turf.
By Stephen Wood When it comes to selling opioids, turf matters. Access to customers and geography play a role in the day to day sales of opioids. This often means selling in areas where there is a wanting and willing customer base with funds to spare. It also means picking a spot, a corner, where…
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Read more: The Hidden Cost of Misinformation: Harms from Opioid Hysteria Extend Beyond Overdose Deaths The Hidden Cost of Misinformation: Harms from Opioid Hysteria Extend Beyond Overdose Deaths
There is already enough harm from this tragedy, neither the government or media should be adding to it.
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Read more: Measuring the Opioid Crisis: The Need for Standardized Cause-of-Death Reporting Measuring the Opioid Crisis: The Need for Standardized Cause-of-Death Reporting
In order for public health officials to appropriately understand and react to the widespread societal impact of the opioid epidemic, the data must first be reliable. To ensure accurate reporting of opioid-related deaths, there needs to be greater standardization among medical examiners and coroners when reporting accidental drug overdose deaths.
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Read more: Are we speaking the same language? An alphabet soup of acronyms in the opioid epidemic Are we speaking the same language? An alphabet soup of acronyms in the opioid epidemic
By Stephen Wood Medication Replacement Therapy (MRT), Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT). Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST). Opioid Replacement Therapy (ORT). Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT). This confusing array of acronyms are all terms that have made their way into the dictum of patients, healthcare providers, policy leaders, politicians and journalists —and new ones pop up every day. Buprenorphine…