Cannabis use, abuse and dependence during the COVID-19 pandemic: a sco** review

U Bonnet, M Specka, P Roser, N Scherbaum - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - Springer
The interaction between cannabis use or addiction and SARS-COV-2 infection rates and
COVID-19 outcomes is obscure. As of 08/01/2022 among 57 evaluated epidemiological …

Telemedicine along the cascade of care for substance use disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

C Lin, H Pham, Y Zhu, SE Clingan, LA Lin… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of healthcare service
delivery. This review aims to describe telemedicine-delivered substance use disorder (SUD) …

Illicit substance use and the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: a sco** review and characterization of research evidence in unprecedented times

AT Vo, T Patton, A Peacock, S Larney… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
We carried out a sco** review to characterize the primary quantitative evidence
addressing changes in key individual/structural determinants of substance use risks and …

Chronic alcohol consumption and COVID‐19 infection risk: A narrative review

MM Friske, R Spanagel - Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, many potential risk groups have been identified, such as
those with obesity, diabetes, preexisting organ injuries, and several other conditions …

Impact of COVID-19 among people who use drugs: a qualitative study with harm reduction workers and people who use drugs

FN Conway, J Samora, K Brinkley, H Jeong… - Harm reduction …, 2022 - Springer
Background Fatal drug overdoses in the USA hit historical records during the COVID-19
pandemic. Throughout the pandemic, people who used drugs had greater odds of …

[HTML][HTML] Smoking, drinking, and physical activity among Korean adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a special report of the 2020 Korea National Health …

S Choi, J Bahk, S Park, K Oh… - Epidemiology and …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
OBJECTIVES This study aimed to describe trends in health behaviours between 2011 and
2020 and compare the changes in these behaviours between the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic …

Substance use patterns among a global sample of transgender and non-binary people during the COVID-19 pandemic

HM Garrison-Desany, CP Childress… - BMC Global and Public …, 2023 - Springer
Background Transgender and non-binary (TNB) people are at high risk of substance misuse
compared to cisgender individuals. Few studies have described substance use among non …

Addiction in the time of COVID-19: Longitudinal course of substance use, psychological distress, and loneliness among a transnational Tyrolean sample with …

K Lommer, T Schurr, B Frajo-Apor, B Plattner… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Next to an increased use of alcohol, the current pandemic has been associated
with increased psychological distress among the general population. Research on its effects …

[HTML][HTML] Are cisgender women and transgender and nonbinary people drinking more during the COVID-19 pandemic? It depends

CB Veldhuis, NT Kreski, J Usseglio… - Alcohol research …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE This narrative review of research conducted during the first 2 years of the COVID-
19 pandemic examines whether alcohol use among cisgender women and transgender and …

Benzodiazepines and Z-hypnotics consumption in long-COVID-19 patients: Gender differences and associated factors

P Carrasco-Garrido, C Fernández-de-Las-Peñas… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Psychotropic drug consumption has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We describe here the prevalence and identifying factors associated with Benzodiazepine …