Strategies Adopted by Addiction Facilities during the Coronavirus Pandemic to Support Treatment for Individuals in Recovery or Struggling with a Substance Use Disorder: A Scoping Review

Divane de Vargas, Caroline Figueira Pereira, Rosa Jacinto Volpato, Ana Vitória Corrêa Lima, Rogério da Silva Ferreira, Sheila Ramos de Oliveira and Thiago Faustino Aguilar
Additional contact information
Divane de Vargas: School of Nursing, São Paulo University, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil
Caroline Figueira Pereira: School of Nursing, São Paulo University, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil
Rosa Jacinto Volpato: School of Nursing, São Paulo University, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil
Ana Vitória Corrêa Lima: School of Nursing, São Paulo University, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil
Rogério da Silva Ferreira: Nucleon of Addiction Nursing Research, School of Nursing (NEPEEA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil
Sheila Ramos de Oliveira: School of Nursing, São Paulo University, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil
Thiago Faustino Aguilar: School of Nursing, São Paulo University, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 22, 1-18

Abstract: This review aimed to identify and synthesize strategies and actions adopted by addiction facilities to support and maintain treatment during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A scoping review was conducted using the following information sources: Virtual Health Library, SCOPUS, Web of Science, PubMed, CINAHL, and Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature. From a total of 971 articles, 28 studies were included. The strategies to maintain the care offer were telehealth/telemedicine, counselling/screening, 24-h telephone, webinars, conducting group therapy and support among users, adaptation for electronic health records, increased methadone/naloxone dispensing, restriction in the number of medication dispensing/day, and electronic prescription and home delivery medications. These strategies can be used to support health professionals in addressing the impact of the pandemic on the treatment of those in recovery or struggling with a substance use disorder when in-person treatment is not possible.

Keywords: COVID-19; substance-related disorders; health facilities; telemedicine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/22/12094/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/22/12094/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:22:p:12094-:d:681718

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().