COVID-19 Social Distancing and Online Mutual Help Engagement for Alcohol Use Recovery

Conclusions: Relatively low activity on StopDrinking may signal broader population trends of problematic alcohol use and recovery disengagement during the initial COVID-19 social distancing timeframe. Continued investigation of online MHGs is needed to understand their potential for monitoring population health trends and to understand how such groups might support alcohol use recovery in contexts of crisis and isolation.
Source: Journal of Addiction Medicine - Category: Addiction Tags: Brief Reports Source Type: research