Your Health Checkup
Your Health Checkup: Substance Abuse During Covid
Episode 4 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Your Health Checkup reports and engages with the community on health.
Addiction specialists say the stress of the pandemic has contributed to a spike in drug and alcohol abuse. A look at some of the resources available.
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Your Health Checkup: Substance Abuse During Covid
Episode 4 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Addiction specialists say the stress of the pandemic has contributed to a spike in drug and alcohol abuse. A look at some of the resources available.
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As of June, 2020 13% of Americans reported startinr increasing substance use aa way of coping with the strs of Covid-19.
According to the CDC, the Pennsylvania secretary of g and alcohol programs receny testified that 20-20 may be worst year for drug related deaths in recent history.
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Patrick Cronin is in recovy and now works for Arek Behavioral Health, helping those seeking treatment for substance abuse and mental health disorders.
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The Pennsylvania Departmenf Drug and Alcohol Programs maintains a helpline callee 866 to help to find substae use disorder treatment and support services for KB's .
I'm Brittany Sweeney.
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