Jalali Mohammad S, Botticelli Michael, Hwang Rachael C, Koh Howard K, McHugh R Kathryn
MGH Institute for Technology Assessment, Harvard Medical School, 101 Merrimac St, Suite 1010, Boston, MA, 02114, United States of America.
MIT Sloan School of Management, 100 Main St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, United States of America.
Health Res Policy Syst. 2020 Aug 8;18(1):88. doi: 10.1186/s12961-020-00598-6.
The opioid epidemic in the United States has had a devastating impact on millions of people as well as on their families and communities. The increased prevalence of opioid misuse, use disorder and overdose in recent years has highlighted the need for improved public health approaches for reducing the tremendous harms of this illness. In this paper, we explain and call for the need for more systems science approaches, which can uncover the complexities of the opioid crisis, and help evaluate, analyse and forecast the effectiveness of ongoing and new policy interventions. Similar to how a stream of systems science research helped policy development in infectious diseases and obesity, more systems science research is needed in opioids.
美国的阿片类药物泛滥对数百万民众及其家庭和社区造成了毁灭性影响。近年来，阿片类药物滥用、使用障碍及过量使用情况日益普遍，这凸显了改进公共卫生方法以减少这种疾病巨大危害的必要性。在本文中，我们解释并呼吁采用更多系统科学方法，这些方法能够揭示阿片类药物危机的复杂性，并有助于评估、分析和预测现行及新政策干预措施的有效性。正如一系列系统科学研究推动了传染病和肥胖症领域的政策制定一样，阿片类药物领域也需要更多的系统科学研究。
