The early impact of COVID-19 on the incidence, prevalence, and severity of alcohol use and other drugs: A systematic review

RA Schmidt, R Genois, J Jin, D Vigo, J Rehm… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The aim of this paper was to examine the early impact of COVID-19 on
substance use to assess implications for planning substance use treatment and support …

Substance use disorders and behavioral addictions during the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19-related restrictions

NM Avena, J Simkus, A Lewandowski, MS Gold… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan, China in December of 2019 and appeared in the
United States 1 month later. Between the onset of the pandemic and January 13, 2021, over …

Trends in US ambulatory care patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2021

JN Mafi, M Craff, S Vangala, T Pu, D Skinner… - JAMA, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Following reductions in US ambulatory care early in the pandemic, it remains
unclear whether care consistently returned to expected rates across insurance types and …

Telemedicine buprenorphine initiation and retention in opioid use disorder treatment for medicaid enrollees

LR Hammerslag, A Mack, RK Chandler… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Early COVID-19 mitigation strategies placed an additional burden on individuals
seeking care for opioid use disorder (OUD). Telemedicine provided a way to initiate and …

Institutional surgical response and associated volume trends throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and postvaccination recovery period

S Ghoshal, G Rigney, D Cheng, R Brumit… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with decreased surgical procedure
volumes, but existing studies have not investigated this association beyond the end of 2020 …

[HTML][HTML] How is the COVID-19 pandemic shaping transportation access to health care?

KL Chen, M Brozen, JE Rollman, T Ward… - Transportation Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted both
transportation and health systems. While about 40% of Americans have delayed seeking …

Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges, populations at risk, implications, and opportunities

MÉ Czeisler, ME Howard… - American Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound worldwide impact
on health. As of mid-December 2020, 77 million confirmed cases of severe acute respiratory …

Addressing racial & socioeconomic disparities in access to medications for opioid use disorder amid COVID-19

MJN Tiako - Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2021 - jsatjournal.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created a devastating public
health crisis, posing significant challenges for health care delivery in the US. The changes …

Telemedicine for treating mental health and substance use disorders: reflections since the pandemic

AB Busch, DE Sugarman, LE Horvitz… - …, 2021 - nature.com
Since the United States COVID-19 pandemic emergency began, telemedicine use has
accelerated [1]. Prior to the pandemic, mental health and/or substance use disorder …

Opioid treatment programs, telemedicine and COVID-19: a scoping review

B Chan, C Bougatsos, KC Priest, D McCarty… - Substance …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Methadone and buprenorphine are effective medications for opioid use
disorder (MOUD) that are highly regulated in the United States. The on-going opioid crisis …