阿片类物质危机的全球化与国际应对

Abstract:The opioid crisis emerged in the United States in the mid-1990s and has continued in a series of “four waves”，each of which happened at different times but with the same profound negative effects，and eventually the four waves “intertwined” to form an increasingly serious crisis. In terms of the regions affected，opioids have a greater impact on North America，Africa and the Middle East，and the abuse of opioids has even become one of the most serious public health disasters in the United States and Canada. What is worse，the opioid crisis has spread widely，with Africa，Europe and even Oceania and Asia being impacted，thus eventually becoming a global crisis. Confronted with this crisis，the international community has taken some measures to deal with it，but still lacks systematic and long-term mechanisms. Even the United Nations，the World Health Organization and its partners only take some immediate actions towards this crisis，but undertake less efforts in developing institutional mechanisms，which inevitably leads to the ineffectiveness of the international community’s response to the opioid crisis. Therefore，the international community must respond to the opioid crisis by a comprehensive and multilateral approach，for instance，building a long-term institutional mechanism of the strategies on opioids，implementing measures for balancing supply and demand of opioids with a view to sustainable development.

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