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COVID-19 and its Effect on Patients with Addiction

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Cornel N. Stanciu, MD, MRO

Addiction is a disease of social nature. The interruption of normalcy, even for those in a period of sobriety, can be especially hard on patients with addiction.

Dr Stanciu is Addiction Section Editor for Psychiatric Times. He is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Director of Addiction Services at New Hampshire Hospital, Concord, NH.

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