ArticleJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2020
Applying principles of injury and infectious disease control to the opioid mortality epidemic in North America: critical intervention gaps.
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- Defining a public health approach to substance use: insights from a systematic scoping review and conceptual framework development approach.BMC public health · 2025Article
- "Safer Drug Supply" Measures in Canada to Reduce the Drug Overdose Fatality Toll: Clarifying Concepts, Practices and Evidence Within a Public Health Intervention Framework.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Article
- The continuous opioid death crisis in Canada: changing characteristics and implications for path options forward.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
- Opioid-related harms and care impacts of conventional and AI-based prescription management strategies: insights from leveraging agent-based modeling and machine learning.Frontiers in digital health · 2023Article
- 'Safer opioid distribution' as an essential public health intervention for the opioid mortality crisis - Considerations, options and examples towards broad-based implementation.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Some notes on the use, concept and socio-political framing of 'stigma' focusing on an opioid-related public health crisis.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- The opioid mortality epidemic in North America: do we understand the supply side dynamics of this unprecedented crisis?Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- Correlations between opioid mortality increases related to illicit/synthetic opioids and reductions of medical opioid dispensing - exploratory analyses from Canada.BMC public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
North America has been experiencing an acute and unprecedented public health crisis involving excessive and increasing levels of opioid-related overdose mortality. In the present commentary, we examine current interventions (as existent mainly in Canada) to date and compare them against established intervention frameworks and practices in other areas of public health, specifically injury and infectious disease control. We observe that current interventions focusing on opioid drug safety or exposure-specifically those that focus on distinctly potent and toxic opioid products driving major increases in overdose mortality-may be considered the equivalent of 'agent-' or 'vector'-based interventions. Such interventions have been largely neglected in favor of 'host' (e.g., drug user-oriented) or 'environmental' measures among strategies to reduce opioid-related overdose, likely contributing to the limited efficacy of current measures. We explore potential reasons, implications and remedies for these gaps in the overall public health strategy employed towards improved interventions to reduce opioid-related health harms.
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