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Journal Article
How the paediatric workforce can address the opioid crisis
2016
Overview
About 17 million people worldwide engage in heroin and non-medical prescription opioid use, resulting in a public health emergency with substantial morbidity and mortality.1 In parts of North America and western Europe, overdose deaths have surpassed motor vehicle crash fatalities,2,3 and even the US presidential campaign has pivoted to addressing the opioid crisis as a national issue. Recognising young people commonly receive care from a paediatrician or general practitioner during adolescence and young adulthood--precisely when the incidence of opioid use disorder sharply increases4--the American Academy of Pediatrics has released a policy statement that calls for expanded access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for youth.5 This is the first time a major paediatric professional organisation has explicitly supported extending MAT to young people for opioid maintenance therapy.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd,Elsevier Limited
Subject
/ Drug Overdose - epidemiology
/ Drug Overdose - prevention & control
/ Female
/ Heroin
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Opiate Substitution Treatment
/ Overdose
/ Primary Health Care - methods
/ Primary Health Care - standards
/ Primary Health Care - trends
/ Substance-Related Disorders - drug therapy
/ Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
/ Substance-Related Disorders - mortality
/ Substance-Related Disorders - therapy
/ United Kingdom - epidemiology
