America's Opioid Ecosystem: How Leveraging System Interactions Can Help Curb Addiction, Overdose, and Other Harms

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Lawmakers should view America's opioid crisis through an "ecosystems" approach, argues a new RAND Corporation report. That means they should examine the gaps and interconnections among emergency response, data collection, education, treatment, housing and law enforcement, the report advises.

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