Addressing long overdue social and structural determinants of the opioid overdose crisis: Drug and Alcohol Dependence Special Issue

This special issue addresses a rapidly growing area of research with a pressing public health need, the social structure of opioid use.

Specifically, this issue compiles original articles that apply theoretical and empirical frameworks to better understand structural conditions that form opioid use patterns.

These articles would inform effective prevention strategies geared to reduce opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose deaths.