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Last Updated: Monday, March 30, 2020 Click on the link to check out a few of the apps* – all free and available to download on both iPhones and Androids. https://www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/news-statistics/2017/06/09/sober-apps-new-way-help-those-recovery Please keep in mind, I am not endorsing any facilities. I only offer them as possible resources.  Addiction counseling, in-person meetings, new hobbies – all of these activities are used by those in recovery. You can now add smartphone applications (apps) to this list. This technology is now being used by many as a tool to help an individual maintain their recovery.
For additional tools download the CSABC manual. While the impact of COVID-19 on illegal drug supplies is not yet fully known, border and other restrictions linked to the pandemic have already caused drug shortages on the street, that have diminished purity, while leading to price hikes.
Meanwhile rising unemployment and plummeting opportunities are expected to disproportionately affect the poorest, making them more vulnerable to drug use, trafficking and cultivation, to earn money so they can survive the global recession. “The COVID-19 crisis and economic downturn threaten to compound drug dangers further still, when our health and social systems have been brought to the brink and our societies are struggling to cope”, added Ms. Waly, a former Egyptian Government minister, who was appointed to the top job at UNODC last November. Pandemic storm clouds as COVID-19 is prompting traffickers to find new routes and methods, illicit activities via the so-called ‘darknet’ and shipments by mail, may increase, according to the report. And because the pandemic has led to highly-addictive opioid shortages, people may seek out more readily available substances, including alcohol, sedatives or by using more harmful delivery methods, such as intravenous injection. source: UN News-https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1066992 |