Association of globalization with the burden of opioid use disorders 2019. A country-level analysis using targeted maximum likelihood estimation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The "opioid crisis" has been responsible for hundreds of thousands deaths in the US, and is at risk of dissemination worldwide. Within-country studies have demonstrated that the rise of opioid use disorders (OUD) is linked to increased access to opioid prescriptions and to so-called "diseases of despair". Both have been related to the emergence of globalization policies since the 1980s. First, globalized countries have seen a reorganization of healthcare practices towards quick and easy answers to complex needs, including increased opioid prescriptions. Second, despair has gained those suffering from the mutations of socio-economic systems and working conditions that have accompanied globalization policies (e.g. delocalization, deindustrialization, and the decline of soc

SUBMITTER: Barbalat G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10577998 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature