The Opiod crisis that Covid overshadowed - RC Groups
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" McCance-Katz said the agency wants more money for services to address an anticipated surge in need for mental health and addiction treatment, which was already in short supply. She cited HHS own substance abuse and mental health research and a February report in the British journal The Lancet on the psychological effects of quarantine. The Lancet study said the effects can include post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide and are "wide-ranging, substantial, and can be long lasting. The new study, released Friday by the Well Being Trust and the American Academy of Family Physicians, factored in isolation and uncertainty when it calculated the expected deaths from suicide, alcohol and drugs, based on nine unemployment scenarios. "We already had a major problem on our hands," said psychologist Benjamin Miller, the Well Being Trusts chief strategy officer.