Another Silver Lining
Anthropological Perspectives on the Promise and Practice of Relaxed Restrictions for Telemedicine and Medication-Assisted Treatment in the Context of Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19001835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emery R Eaves (0000-0003-0692-7213, Northern Arizona University), R T Trotter (0000-0002-0804-4177, Northern Arizona University), Julie A Baldwin (0000-0003-1872-1925, Northern Arizona University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 292-303 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Society for Applied Anthropology (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.292 |
| PMID | 33551465 |
| OpenAlex | W3108926286 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 37 |
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has temporarily relaxed restrictions to serve people who are opioid dependent during social distancing mandates. Changes include allowing patients to take home more doses of methadone and buprenorphine rather than coming to the clinic every day (for methadone) or weekly (for buprenorphine) and relaxed restrictions on telehealth delivery. Telemedicine Program representatives have described the relaxing of federal regulations as a "silver lining" to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from medical anthropology approaches to epidemic surveillance and understandings of risk, we critically evaluate media representations of recent changes to telemedicine, prescribing, and opioid treatment delivery. Ethnographic research with providers and stakeholders in Arizona from 2017 to the present add insight to our analysis of media reports on these topics. Our findings demonstrate that media portrayal of access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as the key to preventing both COVID-19 and overdose among people who are opioid dependent misses important risks and potential inequities. Applied social science questions raised by the new guidelines include: who receives take-home doses of methadone and buprenorphine and why; and how media representations of risk and benefit rationales shape real-world policy and practice
Buprenorphine · Context (archaeology) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Health care · Methadone · Opioid · Pandemic · Political science · Psychiatry · Public relations · Social distance · Social media · Telehealth · Telemedicine · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment · Psychology
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An Epidemic in the Midst of a Pandemic
Management of Medical Risk and Displays of Physician Competence
Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Opioid Use—A Pandemic Within an Epidemic
Covid-19
Care during Covid-19
Telemedicine and the senses
Transcending the medical/media opposition in research on news coverage of health and medicine
Frame Analysis of Drug Narratives in Network News Coverage
Risk and the Human Environment
The War on Drugs That Wasn’t
A relational theory of risk
Telecare and older people
An Overview of Telemedicine
Gendered Triple Standard and Biomedical Management of Perinatal and Maternal Opioid Use Disorder in the United States
To Be Free and Normal
Biocommunicability and the Biopolitics of Pandemic Threats
The cultural nature of risk
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |