Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
NHS East of England, Fulbourn, UK and controlled drugs accountable officer, NHS East of England, Fulbourn, UK and Royal College of General Practitioners representative for dependence forming medications, NHS East of England, Fulbourn, UK.
Clin Med (Lond). 2019 Nov;19(6):441-445. doi: 10.7861/clinmed.2019.0227.
Prescribed opioid misuse in North America is a public health crisis, with huge social, medical and economic repercussions. Surgery is an identified driver for persistent opioid use and misuse. The UK has also seen a surge in opioid consumption per capita and it is now necessary for primary and secondary care to work together to mitigate the problem of perioperative prescribed opioid misuse.This review discusses the identified drivers for persistent opioid use following surgery and discusses the remedial actions that must be taken by all stakeholders to mitigate the UK developing its own perioperative prescribed opioid crisis.
在北美,处方阿片类药物滥用是一个公共卫生危机,其带来了巨大的社会、医疗和经济影响。手术是导致持续使用阿片类药物和滥用的一个已确定因素。英国的人均阿片类药物消耗量也出现了飙升,现在,初级和二级保健机构必须共同努力,解决围手术期处方阿片类药物滥用问题。本文讨论了手术后持续使用阿片类药物的已知驱动因素,并讨论了所有利益相关者必须采取的补救措施,以避免英国出现围手术期处方阿片类药物危机。