Impact of the COVID-19 shutdown on orthopedic trauma numbers and patterns in an academic Level I Trauma Center in Berlin, Germany.  Maleitzke T, Pumberger M, Gerlach UA, Herrmann C, Slagman A, Henriksen LS, et al. (2021)  PLoS ONE 16(2)…

COVID-19 and people who use drugs; seizing opportunity in times of chaos.  Wisse E, Burke-Shyne N, Chang J, Southwell M.  Int J Drug Policy. 2021 Jan 12;90:103097. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103097. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33485187; P…

Anstieg der Suchtpatienten in der Notfallversorgung während der Corona-Pandemie - Daten von einer großstädtischen interdisziplinären Notaufnahme  Sobetzko, A.; Janssen-Schauer, G.; Schäfer, M. SUCHT (2021), 67, pp. 3-11. doi.org/10.1024/0939-…

Mental Health and Substance Use During COVID-19 – Summary Report Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction and the Mental Health Commission of Canada 2021 https://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca/sites/default/files/2021-02/mhcc_ccsa_covid_lege…

Telemedicine and Medical Licensure — Potential Paths for Reform Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., Alok Nimgaonkar, B.A. and Barak Richman, J.D., Ph.D. NEJM, February 20, 2021. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2031608 The growth of telemedicine is seen by some physicians, a…

Substance use and substance use disorder, in relation to COVID-19: protocol for a scoping review.  Kumar N, Janmohamed K, Nyhan K, Martins SS, Cerda M, Hasin D, Scott J, Pates R, Ghandour L, Wazaify M, Khoshnood K.  Syst Rev. 2021 Feb 3;…