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Initial situation: The threat imposed by Covid-19 has a significant impact on the world - especially that of substance-users Drugs suddenly became poorly available, the access to substitution-therapy, addiction-help and addiction-medicine underwent restrictions Close living-conditions, lockdown and poor health-conditions of substance-users led to serious concerns within patients, counselors and doctors Measures: After briefly hesitating decisive action followed and self- and third party protection was installed - where scarce material-supply allowed it Professional institutions improved political and medical framework, infection protection, take-home-prescriptions, test-capacities and virtual consultations as well as team conferences were expanded - and so far bigger infection-clusters could be avoided in this group of patients Conclusions: Some of the current changes will remain - and will have an ongoing impact on our living together We gained a lot of experience in crisis-management - and we improved the trustful relation to our patients Good addiction-work is relationship-work: this crisis has just confirmed that!
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