Addictions en temps de pandémie

The World Health Organization declared the disease caused by coronavirus 2 as a pandemic in March 2020. Through the various measures taken, a psychosocial stressful phenomenon induced by this epidemic has therefore emerged due to financial difficulties, social isolation and the uncertain nature of the future. All national and international studies have shown an increase in the use of tobacco, alcohol and illicit substances. In addition to excessive consumption behavior and even addictive decompensations linked to substances, excessive use of pornography, gambling, gambling, video games mainly via the Internet and physical exercise must also be taken into account. COVID-19 can cause a number of consequences and complications for people with legal and illegal substance use disorders, a particularly vulnerable population. In this review of the literature, we will analyze the data concerning the behaviors of excessive consumption and addiction to licit and illicit psychoactive substances and to certain types of behaviors of daily life. To do this, we used the keyword combinations to select the scientific articles in English and French published between 2018 and 2021 by consulting the Medline, Embase, PsychInfo, Google Scholar databases.