Opportunities to Improve Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Services: Integrating Responses to a Dual Epidemic

by National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Engineering National Academies of Sciences, et al.

Opioid use and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. Despite the fact that the United States is more than two decades into the opioid crisis - the cause of tens of thousands of deaths every year on its own - the health system has not sufficiently addressed the morbidity and mortality of drug use coupled with infectious diseases. This is at least in part due to traditional models of substance use disorder care wherein substance use disorder...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309654491
• ISBN13: 9780309654494
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 216 Pages