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Marsden, John and Brown, Jamie and Clark, Luke and Cousijn, Janna and Hall, Wayne and Hickman, Matt and Holmes, John and Humphreys, Keith and Jackson, Sarah E and Peacock, Amy and Tucker, Jalie (2022) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on addictive disorders-an update. Addiction, 117, (11), pp. 2762-2766. doi: 10.1111/add.16033.

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More than 2 years ago, several of us voiced concern that the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated public health prevention and control measures would be likely to affect disproportionately people with addictive disorders. The scope of research that followed was mainly restricted to higher-income countries, but its volume has been astonishing. COVID-19 will continue to cast a long shadow, but we judged it timely to revisit the question of its impact on addictive disorders and summarize what happened...

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