portion of individuals reporting decreased access to substance use disorder treatment. However, other data have shown that 88.9% of women and 88.8% of men in a national survey of adults with ‘resolved’ AUD (i.e., no longer meet criteria for AUD and who were not drinking heavily) reported that the COVID-19 pandemic had not affected their recovery at all, and that ‘return to drinking’ events were infrequent [19]. These mixed findings indicate that research is needed to understand the association between potential stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic and increases in drinking among individuals with a past AUD, and differences between those in remission from AUD (including abstinent, low-risk, and high-risk drinkers, who are all considered “in remission” according to new NIAAA definitions [20]) and those who are experiencing symptoms of AUD.
