Trends in Opioid Use, Harms, and Treatment

Course overview

This course examines the opioid epidemic in detail. It begins with identifying the scope of the problem. The report includes: trends in prescription opioid use and misuse, risk factors for prescription misuse and overdose, vulnerable populations, heroin use and its relation to prescription opioid use, illicit opioid markets, the current state of surveillance systems, recent developments in pharmaceutical treatment of opioid use disorder, trends in treatment of opioid overdose with naloxone, summary and recommendations.