A dynamic model of the opioid drug epidemic with implications for policy.
CONCLUSION: No single intervention significantly reduces both PWOUD and overdose deaths, but a combination strategy can do so. Entering the 2020 s, only protective measures like naloxone expansion could significantly reduce overdose deaths.
PMID: 32515234 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - Category: Addiction Authors: Homer J, Wakeland W Tags: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse Source Type: research
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