Cover: The Ecosystem Approach to Opioid Policy

The Ecosystem Approach to Opioid Policy

Edited by Bradley D. Stein, Beau Kilmer, Jirka Taylor, Mary E. Vaiana

Contributors: Dionne Barnes-Proby, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Lois M. Davis, Michael Dworsky, Susan M. Gates, Martin Y. Iguchi, Karen Chan Osilla, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Bryce Pardo, Tisamarie B. Sherry, et al.

RAND researchers provide a tool to help federal, state, and local policymakers better understand America's opioid ecosystem. People who use opioids and their families are at the center, and ten interrelated systems, agencies, and sectors make up the outer components. This framework can help policymakers explore innovative policy ideas to help solve opioid-involved problems.

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