Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department Amid COVID-19

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¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (LAW); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (LL).

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Lauren A Walter et al. J Addict Med. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;14(6):e281-e283.

doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000717.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (LAW); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (LL).

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Opioid Use Disorder and COVID-19: Crashing of the Crises.
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