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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Dimensions of Substance Use: A Narrative Review and Living Repository of Primary Data


5. Changes in healthcare and health services access
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  • Reductions and interruptions in access to harm reduction services is likely a key driver in rising overdose trends 

  • While mobile outreach and telehealth have helped mitigate these impacts, their scale-up has been heterogeneous across settings in magnitude and quality

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  1. Changes in propensity to use substances
  2. Changes in substance use contexts and behaviors
  3. Changes in drug markets
  4. Association between substance use and the SARS-CoV-2 infection risk and COVID-19 severity
  5. Changes in healthcare and harm reduction service access among PWUD. 
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