Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MATTC) bermitra dengan Jaringan Respons Opioid Komunitas Etnis di Missouri, Forum Kebijakan Kecanduan, dan Jaringan Respons Opioid (ORN di IA, KS, MO, dan NE) untuk menerjemahkan 5 produk pencegahan berbasis bukti yang berbeda " Pencegahan Materi Pendidikan Penggunaan Opioid"  ke dalam 12 bahasa yang berbeda, dan memastikan mereka sesuai budaya, termasuk Arab, Bosnia, Burma, Dari, Prancis, Tionghoa Mandarin, Pashto, Somalia, Spanyol, Swahili, Tagalog (Filipina), dan Ukraina.

This webinar presented the latest global and regional trends in the use of opioid analgesics and explore issues related to availability.

Around the world the consumption of opioid analgesics has been increasing, yet millions of people still die in pain every year, including children, mostly in poor countries, but also in rural areas in developed countries.

Observing the trends in use of these medications is relevant to determine which medicines are being used and if the international market is distributing mostly newer and less affordable formulations, to determine any changes in the...

Background

Beginning in the 1990s, non-medical use of prescription opioids (POs) became a major public health crisis. In response to rising rates of opioid dependence and fatal poisonings, measures were instituted to decrease the prescription, diversion, and non-medical use of POs including prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), pain clinic laws, prescription duration limits, disciplining doctors who prescribed an excessive number of POs, and the advent of abuse deterrent formulations of POs. This paper explores the unintended effects of these policies in the descriptions of why...