Concept
COVID-19 Impact on Provision of Addiction Services
- Social distancing guidelines have severely strained a lot of the traditional services provided to addiction patients
- In this vein, many specific types of therapies, such as group therapy, that have been seen to be most affective are no longer viable options as they put all participants at risk
- And even in continually active groups, the number of participants must be cut back which therefore could affect the level of care for patients
- A viable option to this is video-call based therapies, however at this time many institutions may not have the resources for this to be entirely possible
- Patients have also been largely forced to take a more active role in their treatment, specifically with the supplying patients with the proper medications and dosages which may have been prepared by staff prior
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Updated 2021-02-19
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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
Biomedical Sciences