Expert consensus on the prevention and treatment of substance use and addictive behaviour‐related disorders during the COVID‐19 pandemic

作者：Jiang Du, Ni Fan, Min Zhao, Wei Hao, Tieqiao Liu, Lin Lü, Jie Shi, Haifeng Jiang, Na Zhong, Xiaochang Lan, Shichao Xu, Hongxian Chen, Xiaojun Xiang, Xuyi Wang, Hongqiang Sun, Bing Li, Yu-Ping Ning, Jing Li, Wanjun Guo, Yajuan Niu, Lixia Sheng, Yi Li, Xuebin Liu, Xuhui Zhou, Mincai Qian, Wenhua Zhou, Ruiling Zhang, Hongxing Hu, Yan Xia, Zhonghua Su, Ruimin Zhang, Mei Yang, Fen Liu, Wei Yuan · 发表于：General Psychiatry · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1136/gpsych-2020-100252 · 被引用次数：36 · 研究领域：COVID-19 and Mental Health、Mental Health Treatment and Access、Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

In early 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak complicated the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with substance use disorders and increased the risks of substance abuse and addictive behaviours, such as online gaming disorders, in the general public. Substance use disorder is a chronic recurrent brain disease characterised by strong cravings, high recurrence rates, and a high proportion of comorbidity of mental and physical disorders.1 Therefore, regular long-term therapeutic interventions are critical to preventing drug relapses while maintaining withdrawal. COVID-19 severely affects normal medical diagnoses, treatments and managements of patients with substance use disorder coupled with addiction-related behaviour. It also adversely impacts the mental state of the general public in several ways and leads to broader symptoms, including anxiety, tension and insomnia, that may increase the risk of alcohol abuse, sedative and hypnotic drug abuse, and other addictive behaviours. The State Council’s Comprehensive Team for Joint Prevention and Control of COVID-19 released a series of documents to address the importance of focusing on the prevention and control of both imported cases and internal transmission in particularly vulnerable places, such as supervision sites, pension facilities, welfare homes and mental health institutions.2 3 It is also of utmost importance to ensure the continuous, regular and effective treatment of existing patients with addiction problems, ...