Use of potentially abusive psychotropic substances in psychiatric inpatients

Use of novel psychoactive substances by inpatients on general adult psychiatric wards

OBJECTIVES Non-illicit alternatives to controlled drugs, known as novel psychoactive substances (NPS), have recently risen to prominence. They are readily available, with uncertain pharmacology and no widely available assay. Given that psychiatric patients are at risk of comorbid substance abuse, we hypothesised that NPS use would be present in the psychiatric population, and sought to determin...

Men's self-definitions of abusive childhood sexual experiences, and potentially related risky behavioral and psychiatric outcomes.

OBJECTIVES To estimate how many heterosexual and gay/bisexual men self-define abusive childhood sexual experiences (CSEs) to be childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and to assess whether CSA self-definition is associated with risky behavioral and psychiatric outcomes in adulthood. METHODS In Philadelphia County, 197 (66%) of 298 recruited men participated in a telephone survey. They were screened for...

A comparison of pattern of psychiatric symptoms in inpatients with bipolar disorder type one with & without methamphetamine use

Background: Iran is facing an outbreak of methamphetamine-induced disorders and frequent use of these substances in patients with bipolar disorder. Using or intoxication of methamphetamine in patients with bipolar I disorder may alter the patient's clinical profile; however there is limited studies about impact of methamphetamine on clinical manifestation of bipolar disorders. This study aimed ...

Potentially inappropriate repeat laboratory testing in inpatients.

Predictors of imminent violence in psychiatric inpatients.

Behavior and symptoms seen in 48 24-h periods preceding violent episodes and 93 control observations were studied. Six behaviors were more common before violence: confusion, irritability, boisterousness, physical threats, verbal threats and attacks on objects. A logistic regression equation based on these behaviors in a randomized half of the observations predicted the occurrence of subsequent ...