Opioid mortality, public health care expenditures, and cross-national homicide rates: findings from 25 OECD countries, 2000–2017

Testa, Alexander; Weiss, Douglas B.; Santos, Mateus Rennó

doi:10.1007/s00127-021-02177-8

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“…Concerning the most relevant impacts, the analysis allowed to group such outcomes into three distinct categories: the social, health, and public health sphere; the medical sphere; and the economic, justice and political sphere. Influences from the social and public health sphere include the illegal use of methamphetamine and fentanyl [ 6 , 49 ], and the rise in the number of deaths [ 14 , 39 ] and homicides [ 50 , 51 ]. Effects from a medical perspective involve infectious complications [ 7 ] and neonatal abstinence syndrome [ 36 ].…”

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“…Effects from a medical perspective involve infectious complications [ 7 ] and neonatal abstinence syndrome [ 36 ]. Outcomes relating to the economy, justice, and politics lead to an increase in healthcare costs [ 5 , 58 ] and a rise in violence [ 36 , 48 , 51 ]. Table 3 below shows some of the most pertinent subgroups, the bibliographic references taken from the sample, and some contents extracted from the analyzed articles for each type of impact.…”

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“…Five contributions argue that it is desirable to proceed with multidisciplinary approaches to address the problem, starting from a complete overview and joining the forces and potential of several institutions and professions [ 5 , 38 , 47 , 51 , 55 ]. The following reflections by a pharmacist and a medical manager emerge in the articles analyzed:…”

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Opioid Misuse: A Review of the Main Issues, Challenges, and Strategies

Biancuzzi

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Brescia

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In the United States, from 1999 to 2019, opioid overdose, either regularly prescribed or illegally acquired, was the cause of death for nearly 500,000 people. In addition to this pronounced mortality burden that has increased gradually over time, opioid overdose has significant morbidity with severe risks and side effects. As a result, opioid misuse is a cause for concern and is considered an epidemic. This article examines the trends and consequences of the opioid epidemic presented in recent international literature, reflecting on the causes of this phenomenon and the possible strategies to address it. The detailed analysis of 33 international articles highlights numerous impacts in the social, public health, economic, and political spheres. The prescription opioid epidemic is an almost exclusively North American problem. This phenomenon should be carefully evaluated from a healthcare systems perspective, for consequential risks and harms of aggressive opioid prescription practices for pain management. Appropriate policies are required to manage opioid use and prevent abuse efficiently. Examples of proper policies vary, such as the use of validated questionnaires for the early identification of patients at risk of addiction, the effective use of regional and national prescription monitoring programs, and the proper dissemination and translation of knowledge to highlight the risks of prescription opioid abuse.

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Opioid Misuse: A Review of the Main Issues, Challenges, and Strategies

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Brescia

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“…These assumptions persist despite that only approximately 4% to 8% of the variation in homicide victimization is shared among nations (Rogers & Pridemore, 2018, p. 706). However, there is some evidence that suggests that the opioid epidemic, COVID-19, and civil unrest could have influenced homicide in other nations (Häuser et al, 2021; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2019; Testa et al, 2022).…”

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“…Therefore, there are reasons to suspect that if the opioid epidemic in the United States influenced homicide victimization in 2014 to 2016, then it would also contribute to changes in homicide victimization across nations (but not simultaneously). There is tentative support that there is a significant association between opioid-related deaths and increases in homicide victimization across nations (Testa et al, 2022).…”

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Was There a Universal Homicide Increase in 2014 to 2016 and 2019 to 2020?

Rogers

2023

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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This article explores whether there was a universal increase in homicide victimization in 2014 to 2016 and 2019 to 2020. Although the United States observed increases in homicide victimization in 2014 to 2016 and 2019 to 2002, it is unlikely that all nations observed simultaneous increases in homicide victimization. Therefore, we explore whether countries observed increases in homicide victimization from 2014 to 2016, only part of the time, and before and after 2014 to 2016. We also investigated which nations observed an increase in homicide victimization from 2019 to 2020. We used WHO mortality homicide victimization data for an initial sample of 116 nations. In general, it does not appear that there was a simultaneous universal increase in the times under study. However, most of the sample at some point between 2014 and 2016 experienced increases in homicide victimization.

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