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The public health dimension of the world drug problem: how …

(8 days ago) WEBThe world drug problem has multiple public health dimensions encompassing vulnerability to drug use disorders and dependence, treatment and care of people with drug use disorders, reducing harm associated with drug misuse, and access to controlled …

https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/WHO-MVP-EMP-2019.02

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Public health approaches to substance use: a scoping review

(5 days ago) WEBing a public health approach to addressing psychoactive substance use. However, there is currently no agreed definition of this approach, and this term has been applied inconsistently in the literature, policy, and practice. A critical first step toward advancing a public health approach to substance use is identifying and articulating its core …

https://journals.lww.com/jbisrir/Fulltext/2022/09000/Public_health_approaches_to_substance_use__a.16.aspx

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VISION FOR THE FUTURE: A PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH

(5 days ago) WEBImplementation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) can have a benefit of more than $58 for every dollar spent; and studies show that every dollar spent on substance use disorder treatment saves $4 in health care costs and $7 in criminal justice costs. 6 Yet, effective prevention interventions are highly underused.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK424861/

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Drug use disorders: impact of a public health rather than a criminal

(3 days ago) WEBAddress substance use disorders as public health problems instead of criminal justice issues.A comprehensive public health approach should offer accessible evidence‐based prevention, treatment, and recovery options to drug users, and engage those who commit criminal offences in evidence‐based treatment during and following, …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428163/

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Substance Abuse and Public Health: A Multilevel Perspective and

(3 days ago) WEBBoth prevention and treatment of substance abuse are pertinent to public health, as the two approaches need to employ a multilevel perspective to conceptualize and solve fallout generated from drug trafficking, misuse and harm [ 11, 12 ]. This points to the need to investigate human hereditary, biological, and psychological needs, cognitive and

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7177685/

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What is a public health approach to substance use? Protocol for a

(5 days ago) WEBIntroduction The concept of a ‘public health approach’ to substance use is frequently but inconsistently invoked. This inconsistency is reflected in public policy, with governments using the term ‘public health approach’ in contradictory ways. This aim of this study is to clarify what is meant and understood when the term ‘public health approach’ is used in …

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/10/e055991

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What is a public health approach to substance use? A qualitative

(7 days ago) WEBThe concept of a public health approach to substance use has gained currency. The term has been used more frequently over time, with 2014 being the median year of publication of the articles in this review. According to this consensus definition summarized in Table 11, a public health approach to illicit drugs and opioids would, at a

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395923000075

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Drugs - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public …

(9 days ago) WEBApril 11, 2024. On March 28, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy hosted a forum about new rules and federal initiatives …

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/topics/drugs-and-public-health

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America’s opioid crisis: the need for an integrated public health …

(9 days ago) WEBThis review highlights four interconnected themes: (1) social determinants of health and disease; (2) person-centered approaches for prevention and treatment; (3) bridging the gap between

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-020-0847-1

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What is a public health approach to substance use? A - PubMed

(1 days ago) WEBA 'public health approach' (PHA) is frequently invoked as a means of addressing these harms, but the term is used in inconsistent and contradictory ways. (54% of articles); for cannabis: regulation (68%); for illicit drugs: that a PHA is distinct from a criminal justice approach (63%); for opioids: substance use disorder treatment (55%

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36689841/

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FACT SHEET: Addressing Addiction and the Overdose Epidemic

(Just Now) WEBIncreasing Funding for Public Health and Supply Reduction. According to the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 40.3 million people aged 12 or older had a past-year substance use disorder

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/01/fact-sheet-addressing-addiction-and-the-overdose-epidemic/

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America’s opioid crisis: the need for an integrated public health …

(3 days ago) WEBThe steady increase in overdose deaths in the United States and recent declines in life expectancy has brought to the forefront the need to adopt comprehensive public health approaches and establish an infrastructure to avert future crises. This crisis, unabated to date, is fueled by increased abuse of synthetic opioids, a rise in deaths from

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7286889/

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Defining and Implementing a Public Health Response to Drug Use …

(1 days ago) WEBAPHA Policy Statement 8817 – A Public Health Response to the War on Drugs: Reducing Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Problems among the Nation’s Youth [1] [69,70] Among the report’s conclusions is the urgent need for a “public health approach” to address drug problems,

https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2014/07/08/08/04/defining-and-implementing-a-public-health-response-to-drug-use-and-misuse

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Addressing the Fentanyl Threat to Public Health NEJM

(Just Now) WEBAudio Interview. Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, poses an increasing public health threat. Low production costs encourage suppliers to “cut” heroin with the drug, particularly white

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1615145

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A public health approach to drug use crucial to ending AIDS

(3 days ago) WEBThe HIV epidemic continues to rage in eastern Europe and central Asia. In the face of global decline in incidence and mortality, this remains the only region in the world where both new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths persistently increase.1 The situation is largely attributable to unmet prevention and treatment needs among people …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(21)00298-8/fulltext

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Harm Reduction SAMHSA

(7 days ago) WEBHarm reduction is a practical and transformative approach that incorporates community-driven public health strategies — including prevention, risk reduction, and health promotion — to empower people who use drugs (and their families) with the choice to live healthy, self-directed, and purpose-filled lives. Harm reduction centers the lived

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/harm-reduction

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The global movement towards a public health approach to …

(3 days ago) WEBLaw enforcement versus public health approach. The policy approach of each country to address substance use disorders can be characterized along a continuum between purely public health approaches and purely law enforcement approaches [].Western Europe is seen as the region with the strongest emphasis on a public health …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262358/

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Drug policy, values and the public health approach –four lessons …

(5 days ago) WEBDrug policies affect a large set of outcomes and may reflect the concerns of several policy stakeholder groups. Researchers analysing policies typically employ a public health approach, extended to reflect concerns beyond population health and longevity.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1515/nsad-2015-0034

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Full article: The global movement towards a public health …

(6 days ago) WEBThe policy approach of each country to address substance use disorders can be characterized along a continuum between purely public health approaches and purely law enforcement approaches [Citation 2]. Western Europe is seen as the region with the strongest emphasis on a public health approach to addiction [Citation 2]. The European …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07853890.2022.2079150

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The Public Health Approach to Illicit Drugs - SAGE Journals

(9 days ago) WEBThe public health approach to drug policy has been offered as an alternative to an emphasis on criminal justice. This discussion provides a critical analysis of the public health approach to drug policy. The meaning of the public health approach is considered, as is the assumption that criminal justice and public health are mutually exclusive

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/073401689802300204

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Drugs and Public Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of …

(8 days ago) WEBOn March 28, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy hosted a forum about new rules and federal initiatives expanding methadone access for persons who are incarcerated—part of a sweeping effort to preventfentanyl- and other opioid-related overdose deaths, reduce …

https://urbanhealth.jhu.edu/topics/drugs-and-public-health

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From drug prohibition to regulation: a public health imperative

(3 days ago) WEBCreating a drug-free world has been the goal of drug prohibition since the 1960s.12, 13 Yet drug use persists at fairly stable levels in every country in the world. 14 For far too long, many governments have pursued this prohibitionist approach to drugs in the name of public health, despite evidence that, as the Lancet Commission on Public

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9214489/

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