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Stringer to Congress: COVID effects on substance use
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33019
Subject(s) - pandemic , human services , substance use , covid-19 , mental health , addiction , substance abuse , political science , state (computer science) , public administration , house of representatives , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , law , politics , disease , pathology , algorithm , virology , outbreak , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
On March 11, Mark Stringer, director of the Missouri Department of Mental Health, as well as immediate past president of the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) board of directors and chair of NASADAD's Public Policy Committee, told the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies that the pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on Black individuals in Missouri in terms of overdose trends. He also discussed the important role of the single state authority in managing the publicly funded addiction treatment, prevention and recovery service system, as well as using innovative approaches to adapt to the pandemic.