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Science-Based Actions Can Help Address the Opioid Crisis

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TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 39, Issue 11, Pages 911-916

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2018.06.002

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  1. Intramural Research Program of National Institute on Drug Abuse
  2. Swedish Research Council

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The epidemic of addiction and over-dose is real. Addiction among pain patients accounts for only a small proportion but a large number. Scientific opinion leaders can be most effective on two fronts, each relatively low-tech: dissemination and oversight of empirically established treatments, and promulgation of social-science-based strategies for population-level prevention.

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