Corona Measures: Effects On Drug Addicts

People in so-called hard drug scenes often belong to the COVID-19 risk groups and are at the same time particularly badly affected by the restrictions of public life, for example due to their homelessness. The Center for Drug Research in the Department of Education is conducting a study to document the consequences of the "lockdown" for outpatient drug help and its clientele and to create the basis for improvements. The Goethe Corona Fund supports the qualitative study on drug aid with grants for necessary personnel and material resources. "In times of the pandemic, it is important not only to research SARS-CoV-2 itself and ways of containing it, but also the indirect consequences. People who consume drugs in precarious life situations are severely affected by the restrictions in public life - including drug help offers. We would like to thank the Goethe Corona Fund, whose funding enables us to comprehensively document and analyze these problems in the form of a social science study. "