I have written before about the greater prevalence of suicide in rural youth (Runkle et al. 2023) and the value of telemedicine in working with rural clients (Kaur et al., 2022). Here, I speak to substance abuse and telepsychiatry. First, Kopak & Raggio (2023) published “Substance Use Disorder and Rural Detention Center Readmission: Results from a 3-year prospective cohort study” in Journal of Rural Mental Health. Here are the impact statement and abstract, edited with some information in bold:

Several recent studies focus on adverse impacts of the pandemic on particular subpopulations. In the first, Mitchell, Banyard, Ybarra & Dunsiger (2022) published “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Youth with a History of Exposure to Self-directed Violence” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Sweet, Campion, Bixler, Sylvester & Ghanem (2022) published “Rural Tele-mental Health Use During the Pandemic for Adjustment Disorders, Anxiety, and Depression” in Journal of Rural Mental Health.