解开与阿片类药物相关的过量症候群:一个范围审查
Jake Lang1, Emily Mendenhall1, Adam D Koon2
1Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States.
The International journal on drug policy
|August 5, 2023
概括
阿片类药物过量综合症是由商业利益和社会不利因素驱动的复杂健康危机. 解决社会政治因素对于预防未来的流行病和帮助恢复至关重要.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 与阿片类药物相关的发病率和死亡率越来越多地被理解为综合症问题,与社会,精神病学和生物条件相互作用.
- 综合症是由商业利益驱动的,在弱势社区出现,与各种健康状况相互作用.
研究的目的:
- 审查有关阿片类药物相关综合症的研究,探索其驱动因素和与其他疾病的相互作用.
- 发现了解阿片类综合症的宏观结构驱动因素及其与"绝望之死" (DoD) 等更广泛话语的联系方面的差距.
主要方法:
- 对研究阿片类药物相关综合症,辅助因子或概念框架的文章进行系统审查.
- 分析主要在北美发表的研究,重点关注公共卫生,药物使用和传染病期刊.
- 研究方法的评估,主要是量化.
主要成果:
- 大多数研究集中在临床表现上,而不是阿片类综合症的宏观结构驱动因素.
- 关于阿片类综合症的学术研究在很大程度上与"绝望的死亡"话语断绝了联系.
- 在阐述塑造这些综合症的社会政治力量方面存在重大差距.
结论:
- 需要将研究重定向到与阿片类药物相关的过量症候群的社会政治决定因素.
- 将综合症理论与更广泛的社会分析相结合,可以促进更公平,更有效的公共卫生干预.
- 解决商业利益和社会不平等问题对于防止未来与阿片类药物相关的健康危机至关重要.
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