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Stigma as a barrier to responding to the opioid crisis: What we can learn and apply from scholarly inquiry

Author: Nathan E. Kruis, Ph.D. , Christopher Whipple, Ph.D. , Övgü Kaynak, Ph.D , Erica Saylor, MPH , Weston Kensinger, Ph.D.
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Article Topics: stigma, opioid crisis, heroin, harm reduction, medication-assisted treatment The opioid epidemic The United States is in the midst of a significant, decades-long opioid epidemic. Use, misuse, and abuse of prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids have risen starkly over the last two decades. Currently, it is estimated that more than 2.6 million Americans meet the criteria for opioid use disorder (OUD). Opioid-related overdoses have also been on the rise, starting with a rise in prescription opioid overdose deaths in the late 1990s, followed by a rise in heroin overdose deaths starting in 2010, and a rise in synthetic opioid overdose deaths starting in…