COVID-19 and Addiction | What Can Family and Friends Do to Help?

NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow talks about the significance of social support during the COVID-19 pandemic and what people can do to help loved ones in recovery or struggling with addiction.
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Addicts need, require(!) physical touch, comforting, support, actual flesh to flesh touch far more than individuals who do not suffer addiction, depression or other negative impacting psychological and physical conditions. Honest truthful Eye contact serves as a mediator or conduit for healing, knowing that the person you are with is being honest and helpful out of their own desire to see you healing. Facilitation of this requires an agreement, a commitment to actually help another human being. This is the Synthesis of successful treatment or rehabilitation, physical contact is woefully unappreciated in the Western ‘American’ Therapeutic models.