Understanding How People with Mental Health Difficulties Experience Substance Use

Reasons for substance use among people with mental disorders.

BACKGROUND Comorbidity of mental disorders and substance use continues to be a major problem. To inform the development of more effective interventions for these co-existing disorders, this paper aimed to determine if there are clear variations in the reasons for tobacco, alcohol or cannabis use across people with different mental disorders. METHODS Data from five randomized controlled trials...

A . Mental Health - Depression , Substance Use

Welfare reform, substance use, and mental health.

Reform has transformed traditional entitlement to cash welfare under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) into a transitional program known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). Because of the new work requirements and the time-limited nature of assistance, policy makers are increasingly confronted with what to do when welfare recipients do not effectively make the transit...

Discontinuous college enrollment: associations with substance use and mental health.

OBJECTIVE This study examined the prospective relationship of substance use and mental health problems with risk of discontinuous enrollment in college. METHODS Participants were 1,145 students at a large public university who were interviewed annually for four years beginning at college entry in 2004 (year 1). Discontinuous enrollment was defined as a gap in enrollment of one or more semeste...

Common stressful life events and difficulties are associated with mental health symptoms and substance use in young adolescents

BACKGROUND Stressful life events are associated with mood disorders in adults in clinical settings. Less described in the literature is the association between common life stressors and a wide range of psychopathology in young adolescents. This study uses a large non-clinical sample of young adolescents to describe the associations among worry or stress about common life events/difficulties, me...