Stock Photo - 30 November 2020, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamm: Peter Raiser, Policy Officer and Deputy Managing Director of the German Centre for Addiction Issues (Deutsche Hauptstelle für Suchtfragen e.V.). (DHS), sits in front of a laptop in the head office. In North Rhine-Westphalia, group meetings were almost universally possible, since according to paragraph 7 of the Corona Protection Ordinance, offers of self-help belong to the ""further extracurricular educational offers"". Nevertheless, the groups of addiction self-help currently also used and still use other communicative ways in many places. From the telephone, to the walk in pairs, Whats-App groups, chats or video conferences. (to dpa ""Addiction self-help increasingly relies on online group meetings"") Photo: Caroline Seidel/dpa. - Hamm/North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany