Don’t Let the COVID-19 Crisis Go to Waste: Breaking Through the Status Quo & Flattening the Opioid Epidemic Curve-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Don’t Let the COVID-19 Crisis Go to Waste: Breaking Through the Status Quo & Flattening the Opioid Epidemic Curve

Published:2021-06-01 Issue:1 Volume:14 Page:23-40
ISSN:1941-2851
Container-title:Journal of Drug Policy Analysis
language:en
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Author:

Bose Feler¹^ORCID,Menzies Percy²,Rottnek Fred³

Affiliation:

1. Associate Professor of Economics and Finance, Indiana University East , Richmond , IN 47374 , USA

2. President, Assisted Recovery Centers of America , St Louis , MO 63017 , USA

3. Professor and Program Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Saint Louis University School of Medicine , St. Louis , MO 63104 , USA

Abstract

Abstract The objective of the paper is to understand the impact of the COVID-19 focusing event that resulted in a distinctive response by the Federal government. The paper focuses on the rapid deregulation that occurred in the opioid use disorder treatments. We frame the narrative using primarily the economic literature on deregulation during a crisis. The temporary deregulation has significantly increased access to treatment and medications and allows for the discovering of a different equilibrium. We also suggest other deregulations that need to be considered. In this paper, we suggest that the provisional deregulations should be made permanent to improve the outcome of the patients who abuse opioids.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Health Policy,Public Administration,Health (social science)

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jdpa-2020-0008/pdf

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