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The North American opioid epidemic: current challenges and a call for treatment as prevention
There is a need for creative, public health-oriented solutions to the increasingly intractable problems associated with the North American opioid epidemic. This epidemic is a fundamentally continental problem, as routes of migration, drug demand, and drug exchange link the USA with Mexico and Canada...
Autores principales: | Vashishtha, Devesh, Mittal, Maria Luisa, Werb, Daniel |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5427522/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28494762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-017-0135-4 |
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