Modelling the intervention effect of opioid agonist treatment on multiple mortality outcomes in people who inject drugs: a three-setting analysis

Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) was found to substantially reduce drug-related harms. Scaling up community OAT to 40% could avert 12–24% of preventable drug-related deaths, including 13–22% of overdose deaths, with greater effect in settings with significant HIV mortality.

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The Lancet Psychiatry