New Challenges in Addiction Medicine: COVID-19 Infection in Patients With Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders-The Perfect Storm

Affiliations

¹ NIDA Intramural Research Program, Baltimore (all authors); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research (Leggio), and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Intramural Research Program (Spagnolo), Bethesda, Md.;Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, and Clinical Science, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy (Montemitro).

Primavera A Spagnolo et al. Am J Psychiatry. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 1;177(9):805-807.

doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20040417. Epub 2020 Jul 14.

¹ NIDA Intramural Research Program, Baltimore (all authors); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research (Leggio), and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Intramural Research Program (Spagnolo), Bethesda, Md.;Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, and Clinical Science, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy (Montemitro).

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Keywords: Addiction Psychiatry; COVID-19; Coronavirus; Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders; Telehealth.

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