Online treatment for substance users
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La pandemia por COVID-19 ha modificado prácticas y conductas en amplios sectores de servicios, incluyendo la medicina, la psicología y las ciencias sociales. Las medidas sanitarias, indispensables para controlar contagios, hicieron que se suspendieran o disminuyeran los tratamientos cara a cara con usuarios de sustancias. Ante tal circunstancia surgió la necesidad de encontrar alternativas para continuar proporcionando atención, sobre todo al tener evidencia de que tener un Trastorno por Uso de Sustancias (TUS) puede ser un factor de riesgo de contagio (Dunlop et al., 2020; Volkow, 2020). La solución para continuar proporcionando los servicios fue el uso de la tecnología móvil. La crisis sanitaria evidenció un procedimiento que desde hace décadas existía, pero al cual no se le había prestado suficiente atención: la telemedicina o telesalud.
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