Democratizing innovation through grass-roots entrepreneurship: lessons from efforts to address the opioid epidemic in the United States
The nationwide opioid epidemic has substantially impacted economically-depressed regions in the USA. Eastern Appalachia has some of the lowest socioeconomic indicators in the USA and has suffered the highest rate of opioid-related fatality in 2016. Despite devoting considerable federal and state res...
Main Authors: | Shriya Srinivasan, Khalil B. Ramadi, Andrea Ippolito |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2019-11-01
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Series: | BMJ Global Health |
Online Access: | https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/6/e002079.full |
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