Solving the Opioid Crisis Isn't Just a Public Health Challenge-It's a Bioethics Challenge
| Autor: | Travis N. Rieder |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) media_common.quotation_subject 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 03 medical and health sciences Politics 0302 clinical medicine Harm Reduction Political science medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Opioid Epidemic Medical prescription Addiction treatment media_common Law and economics Harm reduction Health Policy Addiction Public health 06 humanities and the arts Bioethics United States Analgesics Opioid Philosophy Issues ethics and legal aspects Normative Public Health 060301 applied ethics |
| Zdroj: | Hastings Center Report. 50:24-32 |
| ISSN: | 0093-0334 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/hast.1169 |
| Popis: | Among those who discuss America's opioid crisis, it is popular to claim that we know what we, as a society, ought to do to solve the problem-we simply don't want it badly enough. We don't lack knowledge; we lack the will to act and to fund the right policies. In fact, I've heard two versions of this. Among those who focus on prescription opioids, it is clear that we ought to stop prescribing so many powerful opioid painkillers. And among my public health colleagues focusing on illicit drug use, it is clear that we ought to expand addiction treatment and harm-reduction services. The problem, however, is that the second claim is not obvious (and, indeed, is denied by many Americans), and the first claim probably isn't even true (at least, not in so crude a form). In short, the opioid crisis presents not only a problem of political will but also one of ethics. It will take work to discover or justify our normative claims in this arena. |
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