Mass Spectrometry Laboratory for Clinical Risk and Quality Control, A.O.U.P. "P. Giaccone", Palermo, Italy.
National Centre on Addiction and Doping, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Clin Ter. 2021 May 5;172(3):209-210. doi: 10.7417/CT.2021.2315.
The addiction to illicit opioid and the misuse of prescription synthetic opioids pain relievers and fentanyl analogs generated an opioid epidemic in North America over the last two decades that affected public health with a constantly rising number of overdoses deaths. This health treat moved to Europe with a significant increase starting from 2015 involving mainly norther and eastern countries and finally also the Mediterranean area. The "lock down" isolation and economic recession caused by COVID-19 pandemic showed a resurgence in opioid use and harms.
在过去的二十年中，非法阿片类药物成瘾和处方合成阿片类药物止痛药及芬太尼类似物的滥用在北美引发了阿片类药物流行，过量用药死亡人数不断上升，从而影响了公众健康。这种健康问题已经转移到欧洲，从 2015 年开始，涉及的国家主要是北欧和东欧国家，最终也包括地中海地区。COVID-19 大流行导致的“封锁”隔离和经济衰退表明阿片类药物的使用和危害再次出现。
