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Addressing the Context and Consequences of Substance Use, Misuse, and Dependence: A Global Imperative
Substance use and its consequences have major implications for health in most, perhaps all, settings worldwide—ranging from the pervasive effects of legally-consumed alcohol for people in many countries to the ongoing epidemic of opioid misuse and overdose affecting people in North America and elsewhere. Approaches to prevention and treatment of substance use and misuse span public health and medicine as well as criminal justice and legal systems, and the aim of PLOS Medicine’s Special Issue on Substance Use, Misuse and Dependence is to showcase research and debate in this important and challenging area.
In this month’s Editorial, Guest Editors Alexander Tsai, Margarita Alegria and Steffanie Strathdee discuss some of the papers in the accompanying Special Issue alongside broader issues in health policy and practice.
Image Credit: Jacksoncam, Flickr
Citation: (2019) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 16(11) December 2019. PLoS Med 16(11): ev16.i11. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v16.i11
Published: December 2, 2019
Copyright: © 2019 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Substance use and its consequences have major implications for health in most, perhaps all, settings worldwide—ranging from the pervasive effects of legally-consumed alcohol for people in many countries to the ongoing epidemic of opioid misuse and overdose affecting people in North America and elsewhere. Approaches to prevention and treatment of substance use and misuse span public health and medicine as well as criminal justice and legal systems, and the aim of PLOS Medicine’s Special Issue on Substance Use, Misuse and Dependence is to showcase research and debate in this important and challenging area.
In this month’s Editorial, Guest Editors Alexander Tsai, Margarita Alegria and Steffanie Strathdee discuss some of the papers in the accompanying Special Issue alongside broader issues in health policy and practice.
Image Credit: Jacksoncam, Flickr