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2021: Making COVID‐caused changes permanent, for better or worse
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.33300
Subject(s) - covid-19 , methadone , buprenorphine , medicine , opioid , methamphetamine , anesthesia , medical emergency , emergency medicine , virology , psychiatry , outbreak , receptor , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
What started in 2020 — COVID‐19 — continued with a vengeance in 2021, but last year, some of the changes put into place due to the virus became permanent, at least for now. These included relaxations of the rules regarding buprenorphine and methadone, far greater use of telemedicine and other less sanguine changes, such as to‐go alcohol. In the meantime, opioid overdoses continued to go up, this time with the addition of methamphetamine and cocaine.