id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-315963-hs70zo48 Kar, Sujita Kumar COVID-19 pandemic and addiction: Current problems and future concerns 2020-04-10 .txt text/plain 793 56 55 People around the globe, during this crisis period, are expected to encounter several mental health challenges ranging from panic, phobia, health anxiety, sleep disturbances to dissociative like symptoms (Banerjee, 2020) . Hence, people who were addicted to any kind of substance use independence pattern are expected to experience withdrawal symptoms. As the impact of pandemic lasting for a long time, the binge-watching of television and electronic gadgets are also likely to persist; which may later result in behavioral addiction. Also, it is an accepted truth that the patients with substance use problems are vulnerable populations during the time of pandemic both for being infected or regarding complications (O'Sullivan and Bourgoin, 2010) . There is an urgent need to address the mental health issues of people during this pandemic. It is highly important to address mental health emergencies like severe and complicated withdrawal symptoms of substance use. ./cache/cord-315963-hs70zo48.txt ./txt/cord-315963-hs70zo48.txt