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Hunter Jackson Smith1, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar2, Bob Carr3
1Third-year preventive medicine resident at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland.
Abstract:
Research is the foundation of evidence-based health care that motivates innovations in clinical interventions and public health. Prior and current research on opioid use has focused mainly on individual patient-physician relationships, opioid use disorder and treatment, and overdose responses. This article recommends 3 priorities for future research and investigates why, from clinical and ethical standpoints, future research should be directed toward building the capacity and increasing the effectiveness of population-based programs and improving prevention strategies.
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