Editorial: Challenges to Opioid Use Disorders During COVID-19

Yankun Sun¹, Yanping Bao², Thomas Kosten³, John Strang⁴, Jie Shi², Lin Lu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Mental Health, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Peking University Sixth Hospital, Beijing, China.
² National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing, China.
³ Division of Alcohol and Addiction Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
⁴ Department of Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.

Editorial

Yankun Sun et al. Am J Addict. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;29(3):174-175.

doi: 10.1111/ajad.13031. Epub 2020 Apr 13.

Yankun Sun¹, Yanping Bao², Thomas Kosten³, John Strang⁴, Jie Shi², Lin Lu^{1

2}

¹ Institute of Mental Health, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Peking University Sixth Hospital, Beijing, China.
² National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing, China.
³ Division of Alcohol and Addiction Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
⁴ Department of Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.

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