New Trends of Substance Abuse During COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Perspective

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² National Centre on Addiction and Doping, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Simona Zaami et al. Front Psychiatry. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 16:11:700.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00700. eCollection 2020.

¹ Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² National Centre on Addiction and Doping, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

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Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; new benzodiazepines; new psychoactive substances; opioids; substance abuse.

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