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NAATP on telemedicine and a ‘disease of isolation’
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32689
Subject(s) - telemedicine , social distance , isolation (microbiology) , addiction , social isolation , covid-19 , internet privacy , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , disease , health care , political science , computer science , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , biology
Because of COVID‐19 social distancing, many people are unable to go to in‐person recovery support meetings, or to treatment. There's not a lot of evidence about telemedicine and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, because telemedicine is so recent, said Chelsey Cusimano, executive administrator of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP). But it is all people have now.