USA. Reviewing NIDA’s 2019 Achievements and Looking to the Future
USA. Reviewing NIDA’s 2019 Achievements and Looking to the Future
As NIDA sets its sights on new goals and objectives for 2020 and beyond, I like to reflect on how far we have come in our research efforts, especially as they concern the opioid crisis, one of the biggest public health issues of our era. Although deaths from synthetic opioids like fentanyl continue to rise, glimmers of hope are starting to appear. Provisional numbers show that overall overdose deaths have held steady rather than increasing since 2018, and a massive federal investment toward finding scientific solutions to the crisis promises to further turn the tide against opioid and other drug use disorders. (NIDA, USA, 24.01.2020)
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