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Engineering Approaches for Addressing Opioid Use Disorder in the Community

Year: 2020

Type: review

Abstract: Many communities in the United States are struggling to deal with the negative consequences of illicit opioid use. Effectively addressing this epidemic requires the coordination and support of community stakeholders in a change process with common goals and objectives, continuous engagement with individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) through their treatment and recovery journeys, application of systems engineering principles to drive process change and sustain it, and use of a formal evaluation process to support a learning community that continuously adapts. This review presents strategies to improve OUD treatment and recovery with a focus on engineering approaches grounded in systems thinking.

Source: Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-082719-040832

Author: Paul M. Griffin

Institution: Purdue University West Lafayette

Language: English

Topic: Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Purdue University, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention