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A Global Survey on Changes in the Supply, Price, and Use of Illicit Drugs and Alcohol, and Related Complications During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

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2021-08-06

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Article

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16640640

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10.3389/fpsyt.2021.646206

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2-s2.0-85113236018

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Mahidol University

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Frontiers in Psychiatry. Vol.12, (2021)

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Ali Farhoudian, Seyed Ramin Radfar, Hossein Mohaddes Ardabili, Parnian Rafei, Mohsen Ebrahimi, Arash Khojasteh Zonoozi, Cornelis A.J. De Jong, Mehrnoosh Vahidi, Masud Yunesian, Christos Kouimtsidis, Shalini Arunogiri, Helena Hansen, Kathleen T. Brady, Marc N. Potenza, Alexander Mario Baldacchino, Hamed Ekhtiari, Adrian Octavian Abagiu, Franck David Noel Abouna, Mohamed Hassan Ahmed, Basma Al-Ansari, Feda Mahmmoud Abu Al-Khair, Mandhar Humaid Almaqbali, Atul Ambekar, Sidharth Arya, Victor Olufolahan Asebikan, Murad Ali Ayasreh, Debasish Basu, Zoubir Benmebarek, Roshan Bhad, Mario Blaise, Nicolas Bonnet, Jennifer Brasch, Barbara Broers, Anja Busse, Jenna L. Butner, Moses Camilleri, Giovanna Campello, Giuseppe Carra, Ivan Celic, Fatemeh Chalabianloo, Abhishek Chaturvedi, José de Jesús Eduardo Noyola Cherpitel, Kelly J. Clark, Melissa Anne Cyders, Ernesto de Bernardis, Abbas Deilamizade, John Edward Derry, Naveen Kumar Dhagudu, Pavla Dolezalova, Geert Dom, Adrian John Dunlop, Mahmoud Mamdouh Elhabiby, Hussein Elkholy, Nsidibe Francis Essien, Ghandi Ilias Farah, Marica Ferri, Georgios D. Floros, Catherine Friedman, Clara Hidalgo Fuderanan, Gilberto Gerra, Abhishek Ghosh, Maka Gogia, Ilias A. Grammatikopoulos, Paolo Grandinetti, Amira Guirguis, David Gutnisky, Paul Steven Haber, Peyman Hassani-Abharian, Zahra Hooshyari, Islam Ibrahim Mokhtar Ibrahim, Hada Fong Ha Ieong, Regina Nova Indradewi, Shelly Iskandar, Thahir Noorul Isra, Shobhit Jain, Sandi James, Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Javadi, Keun Ho Joe, Darius Jokubonis, Acka Tushevska Jovanova, Rama Mohamed Kamal, Alexander Ivanov Kantchelov, Preethy Kathiresan, Gary Katzman, Paul Kawale, Audrey Margaret Kern, Felix Henrique Paim Kessler, Sung Gon Sue Kim, Ann Marie Kimball, Zeljko Kljucevic, Kristiana Siste Kurniasanti, Roneet Lev, Hae Kook Lee, Aiste Lengvenyte, Shaul Lev-Ran, Geni Seseja Mabelya, Mohamed Ali El Mahi, J. Maphisa Maphisa, Icro Maremmani, Laura Masferrer A Global Survey on Changes in the Supply, Price, and Use of Illicit Drugs and Alcohol, and Related Complications During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychiatry. Vol.12, (2021). doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.646206 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/77971

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A Global Survey on Changes in the Supply, Price, and Use of Illicit Drugs and Alcohol, and Related Complications During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

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Ali Farhoudian
 Seyed Ramin Radfar
 Hossein Mohaddes Ardabili
 Parnian Rafei
 Mohsen Ebrahimi
 Arash Khojasteh Zonoozi
 Cornelis A.J. De Jong
 Mehrnoosh Vahidi
 Masud Yunesian
 Christos Kouimtsidis
 Shalini Arunogiri
 Helena Hansen
 Kathleen T. Brady
 Marc N. Potenza
 Alexander Mario Baldacchino
 Hamed Ekhtiari
 Adrian Octavian Abagiu
 Franck David Noel Abouna
 Mohamed Hassan Ahmed
 Basma Al-Ansari
 Feda Mahmmoud Abu Al-Khair
 Mandhar Humaid Almaqbali
 Atul Ambekar
 Sidharth Arya
 Victor Olufolahan Asebikan
 Murad Ali Ayasreh
 Debasish Basu
 Zoubir Benmebarek
 Roshan Bhad
 Mario Blaise
 Nicolas Bonnet
 Jennifer Brasch
 Barbara Broers
 Anja Busse
 Jenna L. Butner
 Moses Camilleri
 Giovanna Campello
 Giuseppe Carra
 Ivan Celic
 Fatemeh Chalabianloo
 Abhishek Chaturvedi
 José de Jesús Eduardo Noyola Cherpitel
 Kelly J. Clark
 Melissa Anne Cyders
 Ernesto de Bernardis
 Abbas Deilamizade
 John Edward Derry
 Naveen Kumar Dhagudu
 Pavla Dolezalova
 Geert Dom
 Adrian John Dunlop
 Mahmoud Mamdouh Elhabiby
 Hussein Elkholy
 Nsidibe Francis Essien
 Ghandi Ilias Farah
 Marica Ferri
 Georgios D. Floros
 Catherine Friedman
 Clara Hidalgo Fuderanan
 Gilberto Gerra
 Abhishek Ghosh
 Maka Gogia
 Ilias A. Grammatikopoulos
 Paolo Grandinetti
 Amira Guirguis
 David Gutnisky
 Paul Steven Haber
 Peyman Hassani-Abharian
 Zahra Hooshyari
 Islam Ibrahim Mokhtar Ibrahim
 Hada Fong Ha Ieong
 Regina Nova Indradewi
 Shelly Iskandar
 Thahir Noorul Isra
 Shobhit Jain
 Sandi James
 Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Javadi
 Keun Ho Joe
 Darius Jokubonis
 Acka Tushevska Jovanova
 Rama Mohamed Kamal
 Alexander Ivanov Kantchelov
 Preethy Kathiresan
 Gary Katzman
 Paul Kawale
 Audrey Margaret Kern
 Felix Henrique Paim Kessler
 Sung Gon Sue Kim
 Ann Marie Kimball
 Zeljko Kljucevic
 Kristiana Siste Kurniasanti
 Roneet Lev
 Hae Kook Lee
 Aiste Lengvenyte
 Shaul Lev-Ran
 Geni Seseja Mabelya
 Mohamed Ali El Mahi
 J. Maphisa Maphisa
 Icro Maremmani
 Laura Masferrer

Other Contributor(s)

Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital
 Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies
 College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center
 Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine
 School of Public Health
 School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine
 Swansea University Medical School
 Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
 Laureate Institute for Brain Research
 The University of Sydney School of Medicine
 Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Manipal University
 Psychiatric Hospital Vrap?e
 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Austria
 University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
 Ministry of Health Oman
 Université de Yaoundé I
 Universitas Padjadjaran
 Universitas Indonesia
 Vilniaus Universitetas
 Al-Ahliyya Amman University
 Connecticut Mental Health Center
 Haukeland Universitetssjukehus
 CUNY School of Medicine
 Università di Pisa
 Tehran University of Medical Sciences
 The University of Sydney
 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
 University of Tehran
 University of St Andrews
 New York University
 University of Botswana
 Ain Shams University
 Radboud Universiteit
 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
 Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine
 Scripps Mercy Hospital
 Universiteit Antwerpen
 Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
 Brown University
 Eastern Health
 Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
 Universitat de Girona
 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
 Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
 Yale University
 MUSC College of Medicine
 The Catholic University of Korea
 Universidad de Buenos Aires
 Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
 The Mount Sinai Medical Center
 Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh
 SerT Lentini
 Addiction Medicine Clinic
 Addiction Medicine Clinic
 Addiction Medicine Clinic
 Univeristi Malaysia Sabah
 Sobriety Centers of New Hampshire
 Organization Against Drugs
 Addiction medicine clinic
 European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
 Addiction Medicine Clinic
 Réseau de Prévention des Addictions (RESPADD)
 Aġenzija
 Hayat Center for Treatment and Psycho-social Rehabilitation
 National Narcotics Board of Indonesia
 Serenity Vista Addiction Treatment Center
 Addiction Crisis Solutions
 Community Health Work
 National Center for Mental Health of Korea
 Israel Center on Addiction
 Fuderanan Mental Health Clinic
 Drug & Alcohol Clinical Services
 Naufar Institute
 Republican Center for Addictive Disorders
 ESIC Medical College
 Pt BDS University of Health Sciences
 Al-Amal Psychiatric Hospital
 Georgian Harm Reduction Network
 Chatham House
 Centre medical Marmottan
 African Institute for Development Policy
 National Institute of Mental Health
 Rebirth Charity Society NGO
 Institute for Cognitive Science Studies
 Public Health Institute of Split-Dalmatia County
 Heritage Institute of Medical Sciences
 National Institute for Infectious Diseases
 Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse
 Kantchelov Clinic
 ASL Teramo
 National Institute of Education

Abstract

Background and Aims: COVID-19 has infected more than 77 million people worldwide and impacted the lives of many more, with a particularly devastating impact on vulnerable populations, including people with substance use disorders (SUDs). Quarantines, travel bans, regulatory changes, social distancing, and “lockdown” measures have affected drug and alcohol supply chains and subsequently their availability, price, and use patterns, with possible downstream effects on presentations of SUDs and demand for treatment. Given the lack of multicentric epidemiologic studies, we conducted a rapid global survey within the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) network in order to understand the status of substance-use patterns during the current pandemic. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting: Worldwide. Participants: Starting on April 4, 2020 during a 5-week period, the survey received 185 responses from 77 countries. Measurements: To assess addiction medicine professionals' perceived changes in drug and alcohol supply, price, use pattern, and related complications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings: Participants reported (among who answered “decreased” or “increased”) a decrease in drug supply (69.0%) and at the same time an increase in price (95.3%) globally. With respect to changes in use patterns, an increase in alcohol (71.7%), cannabis (63.0%), prescription opioids (70.9%), and sedative/hypnotics (84.6%) use was reported, while the use of amphetamines (59.7%), cocaine (67.5%), and opiates (58.2%) was reported to decrease overall. Conclusions: The global report on changes in the availability, use patterns, and complications of alcohol and drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic should be considered in making new policies and in developing mitigating measures and guidelines during the current pandemic (and probable future ones) in order to minimize risks to people with SUD.

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