Addressing opioid use disorder: Mexico's step backwards

Steffanie A Strathdee¹, David Goodman-Meza², Claudia M Rafful^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Daniel Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
³ Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico.
⁴ Center for Global Mental Health Research, National Institute of Psychiatry, Rockville, MD, USA.

Steffanie A Strathdee et al. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023.

. 2023 May 23:23:100520.

doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100520. eCollection 2023 Jul.

Steffanie A Strathdee¹, David Goodman-Meza², Claudia M Rafful^{3

4}

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Daniel Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
³ Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico.
⁴ Center for Global Mental Health Research, National Institute of Psychiatry, Rockville, MD, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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