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Published Online: 14 July 2020

New Challenges in Addiction Medicine: COVID-19 Infection in Patients With Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders—The Perfect Storm

Primavera A. Spagnolo, M.D., Ph.D., Chiara Montemitro, M.D., and Lorenzo Leggio, M.D., Ph.D. [email protected]Authors Info & Affiliations
Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 177, Number 9
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20040417
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American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 177 • Number 9 • September 01, 2020
Pages: 805 - 807
PubMed: 32660296

History

Accepted: 27 May 2020
Published online: 14 July 2020
Published in print: September 01, 2020

Keywords

  1. Addiction Psychiatry
  2. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
  3. COVID-19
  4. Coronavirus
  5. Telehealth

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Primavera A. Spagnolo, M.D., Ph.D.
NIDA Intramural Research Program, Baltimore (all authors); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research (Leggio), and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Intramural Research Program (Spagnolo), Bethesda, Md.;Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, and Clinical Science, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy (Montemitro).
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Chiara Montemitro, M.D.
NIDA Intramural Research Program, Baltimore (all authors); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research (Leggio), and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Intramural Research Program (Spagnolo), Bethesda, Md.;Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, and Clinical Science, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy (Montemitro).
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Lorenzo Leggio, M.D., Ph.D. [email protected]
NIDA Intramural Research Program, Baltimore (all authors); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research (Leggio), and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Intramural Research Program (Spagnolo), Bethesda, Md.;Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, and Clinical Science, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy (Montemitro).
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Notes

Send correspondence to Dr. Leggio ([email protected]).

Author Contributions

The first two authors contributed equally to this commentary.

Funding Information

All authors were supported by NIDA’s intramural research programs; Dr. Leggio was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; and Dr. Spagnolo was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.Dr. Leggio receives royalties from Rutledge and an honorarium from the U.K. Medical Council on Alcohol for serving as editor-in-chief of Alcohol and Alcoholism. Drs. Spagnolo and Montemitro report no financial relationships with commercial interests.

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