Alcohol use disorder: A pre-existing condition for COVID-19?  Bailey KL, Samuelson DR, Wyatt TA.  Alcohol. 2021 Feb;90:11-17. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2020.10.003. Epub 2020 Oct 18. PMID: 33080339; PMCID: PMC7568767. https://www.ncbi.nlm…

Highlighting the COVID-19 – alcohol connection A new report ‘Alcohol and the coronavirus pandemic: individual, societal and policy perspectives’ by a group of researchers was released recently. They investigate the links between alcohol use and COV…

Is substance use changing because of the COVID‐19 pandemic? Conceptual and methodological considerations to delineating the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on substance use and disorder.  Jager, J., and Keyes, K. M. (2021)  Add…

Isolation, Solitude and Social Distancing for People Who Use Drugs: An Ethnographic Perspective.  Roe L, Proudfoot J, Tay Wee Teck J, Irvine RDG, Frankland S, Baldacchino AM.  Front Psychiatry. 2021 Jan 13;11:623032. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2…

Exploring Factors Associated with Alcohol and/or Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic.  MacMillan T, Corrigan MJ, Coffey K, Tronnier CD, Wang D, Krase K.  Int J Ment Health Addict. 2021 Jan 26:1-10. doi: 10.1007/s11469-020-00482-y…

Self-reported changes in use of addictive substances and behaviors among patients treated in an addiction treatment clinic during the COVID-19 quarantine.  Lev Bar-Or R, Shalit N, Shpitzer R, Kor A, Lev-Ran S.  Isr Med Assoc J. 2021 Jan;…