Inpatient co-morbidity of mental illness and substance misuse (including alcohol)

A study of the Prevalence and Management of Co-Morbidity amongst Adult Substance Misuse & Mental Health Treatment Populations

Alcohol and Other Substance Misuse in Suicide

Dual diagnosis of severe mental illness and substance misuse: a case for specialist services?

233 Helpfulness of interventions for mental disorders: beliefs of health professionals compared with the general public

Defining dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance misuse: some methodological issues.

This paper discusses methodological issues arising in the initial stages of a larger epidemiological case-control study. Practitioners from both Generic Mental Health and Substance Misuse Services (n = 170) were asked to identify which of their clients, from a time-limited caseload (n = 2341), had comorbid mental health and substance misuse problems. Although practitioners were provided with a ...

Co-occurring mental illness in emergency department and hospital inpatient encounters related to substance abuse in Maryland

Background Mental illness and substance abuse are highly comorbid conditions. At the individual level, symptoms of one can influence symptoms of the other and therefore demand treatment approaches specific to the combination of substance abused and mental illness. At the population level, co-occurring substance use and mental illness challenge public health prevention efforts and decrease treat...