Gender, employment, and continuous pandemic as predictors of alcohol and drug consumption during the COVID-19.  Levy I, Cohen-Louck K, Bonny-Noach H.  Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Sep 2;228:109029. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109029. Epu…

Psychoactive Substance Use and Its Relationship to Stress, Emotional State, Depressive Symptomatology, and Perceived Threat During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico.  Martínez-Vélez NA, Tiburcio M, Natera Rey G, Villatoro Velázquez JA, Arroyo-Be…

Inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro by suppressing its receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, via aryl-hydrocarbon receptor signal.  Tanimoto, K., Hirota, K., Fukazawa, T. et al. Sci Rep 11, 16629 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s4…

Drugs that mimic effects of cigarette smoke reduce SARS-CoV-2's ability to enter cells Researchers have identified a potential reason why lower numbers of COVID cases have appeared amongst smokers compared to non-smokers, even as other reports sugg…

Projected long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hepatitis C outcomes in the United States: a modelling study.  Barocas JA, Savinkina A, Lodi S, Epstein RL, Bouton TC, Sperring H, Hsu HE, Jacobson KR, Schechter-Perkins EM, Linas BP, Whit…

The COVID-19 Pandemic Mental Health Questionnaire (CoPaQ): psychometric evaluation and compliance with countermeasures in psychiatric inpatients and non-clinical individuals.  Rek SV, Bühner M, Reinhard MA, Freeman D, Keeser D, Adorjan K, Falk…