Comparing professional communities: Opioid prescriber networks and Public Health Preparedness Districts.

ABSTRACT: Problem opioid use and opioid-related drug overdoses remain a major public health concern despite attempts to reduce and monitor opioid prescriptions and increase access to office-based opioid treatment. Current provider-focused interventions are implemented at the federal, state, regional, and local levels but have not slowed the epidemic. Certain targeted interventions aimed at opioid prescribers rely on populations defined along geographic, political, or administrative boundaries; however, those boundaries may not align well with actual provider-patient communities or with the geographic distribution of high-risk opioid use. Instead of relying exclusively on commonly used geographic and administrative boundaries, we suggest augmenting existing strategies with a social network-based appr

SUBMITTER: Kaminski P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10474636 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature