Addiction as a Coping Response: Hyperkatifeia, Deaths of Despair, and COVID-19.

Am J Psychiatry

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Md. (all authors); National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Md. (Koob).

Published: November 2020

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