Digital addiction advice: Help with just one click in the Verden district!

Digital addiction advice: Help with just one click in the Verden district!

Verden, Deutschland - The specialist office for addiction and addiction prevention in the church district of Verden has opened new digital paths in addiction advice. As the DigiSchnbebot , the platform video chat and video calls enables personal communication with the consultants. Users can book and participate the appointments regardless of their location. The video calls are encrypted and are handled by the open source software “Jitsi”. Users must log in to DigiSucht on the agreed appointment, whereby it should be noted that the video calls currently only work with current versions of the browser Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Safari.

In 2023, the advice in the Verden region already recorded 30 online consultations and a total of around 700 inquiries to the advice center in Achim and Verden, which corresponds to an increase of around a third compared to the previous year. Gronewold suspects that the effects of the corona period have a significant impact on addictive behavior.

-transmitted by West-Ost-Medien