How simulation modeling can support the public health response to the opioid crisis in North America: Setting priorities and assessing value.
How simulation modeling can support the public health response to the opioid crisis in North America: Setting priorities and assessing value.
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10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102726
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2021-03
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OUD Modeling writing group
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Opioid-related harms are a major public health concern in North America. In the United States and Canada, respectively, over 72,000 and about 4100 people died of a drug overdose in 2017, the vast majority of which were opioid-related (Government of Canada, 2018; National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2019). Opioid-related overdose deaths in the United States have been increasing on an exponential trajectory since 1979, with the introduction of illicit synthetic opioids driving the most recent increases (Jalal et al., 2018). Overdose is one manifestation of the high prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD, Bose et al., 2016) other outcomes include localized outbreaks of bloodborne infections, particularly HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV), and rising incidence of endovascular infections (Bates, Annie, Jha & Kerns, 2019; Inocencio, Carroll, Read & Holdford, 2013; Schwetz, Calder, Rosenthal, Kattakuzhy & Fauci, 2019; Springer, Korthuis & Del Rio, 2019; Strassels, 2009; White, Birnbaum & Mareva, 2005).Questions about the long-term management of people with OUD–from availability of harm reduction services to use of medications to treat OUD (MOUD; terminology used to distinguish pharmacotherapies from psychosocial care often associated with treatment Blanco & Volkow, 2019) to increasing access to HCV treatment–have become priority topics in public health and healthcare delivery (Blanchard, Weiss, Barrett, McDermott & Heslin, 2018; Blanco & Volkow, 2019; Habib, Gouriet & Casalta, 2019). While many evidence-based interventions for people with OUD are now available, they are significantly underutilized and questions remain regarding optimal intervention selection (including the mix of interventions and the scale of implementation for each) and delivery at community and regional levels. According to the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, only one in four Americans with an OUD received any care,(Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, 2018) and fewer than a third of those who are in care received any MOUD (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, 2018, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, 2018).