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Eugene

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Wed Feb 9, 2022, 04:10 AM Feb 2022

Opioid fight needs new strategy, Cabinet leadership: report

Source: Associated Press

Opioid fight needs new strategy, Cabinet leadership: report

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
February 8, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter its festering overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional commission advises.

With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl driving record overdose deaths, the scourge of opioids awaits after the COVID-19 pandemic finally recedes, a shift that public health experts expect in the months ahead.

“This is one of our most pressing national security, law enforcement and public health challenges, and we must do more as a nation and a government to protect our most precious resource — American lives,” the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking said in a 70-page report released Tuesday.

The report envisions a dynamic strategy. It would rely on law enforcement and diplomacy to shut down sources of chemicals used to make synthetic opioids. It would offer treatment and support for people who become addicted, creating pathways that can lead back to productive lives. And it would invest in research to better understand addiction’s grip on the human brain and to develop treatments for opioid use disorder.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-pandemics-7116a2b5ae3353cac0a1a34fac268936

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