A significant challenge in addressing the country's opioid crisis is that policies based on past patterns of behavior may have unintended consequences because those patterns change over time.
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To help combat the opioid crisis, researchers have developed a tool, known as SOURCE, which taps national data on opioids to track stages of use and misuse, including use initiation, treatment, relapse, and death by overdose.
A data-driven simulation model designed to help policymakers to better understand and address the nation's rampant opioid crisis has been developed by a team of scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital.