TY - JOUR
AU - Farhoudian, Ali
AU - Baldacchino, Alexander Mario
AU - Clark, Nicolas
AU - Gerra, Gilberto
AU - Ekhtiari, Hamed
AU - Dom, Geert
AU - Mokri, Azarakhsh
AU - Sadeghi, Mandana
AU - Nematollahi, Pardis
AU - Demasi, Maryanne
AU - Schütz, Christian
AU - Hashemian, Seyed Mohammadreza
AU - Tabarsi, Payam
AU - Galea-Singer, Susanna
AU - Carrà, Giuseppe
AU - Clausen, Thomas
AU - Kouimtsidis, Christos
AU - Tolomeo, Serenella
AU - Radfar, Seyed Ramin
AU - Razaghi, Emran Mohammad
PY - 2020
DA - April
TI - COVID-19 and Substance Use Disorders: Recommendations to a Comprehensive Healthcare Response. An International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Practice and Policy Interest Group Position Paper
JO - Basic and Clinical Neuroscience
EP - 150
VL - 11
IS - 2
DO - https://doi.org/10.32598/bcn.11.covid19.1
AB - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is escalating all over the world and has higher morbidities and mortalities in certain vulnerable populations. People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) are a marginalized and stigmatized group with weaker immunity responses, vulnerability to stress, poor health conditions, high-risk behaviors, and lower access to health care services. These conditions put them at a higher risk of COVID-19 infection and its complications. In this paper, an international group of experts on addiction medicine, infectious diseases, and disaster psychiatry explore the possible raised concerns in this issue and provide recommendations to manage the comorbidity of COVID-19 and Substance Use Disorder (SUD).
PB - Negah Institute for Scientific Communication
UR - https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/01557436-a985-4cd3-9bf7-da5b7f8bc5a1
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Alcohol, tobacco and drugs
ER