Problem: Preventing Substance Abuse among Employees and Retirees

1996 ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Michael J. Stoil ◽  
Gary Hill
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse

Many Children Live Around Substance Abuse

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
DOUG BRUNK
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse

Antidrug Messages Result in Youth Substance Abuse Decline

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
MICHELE G. SULLIVAN
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Youth Substance Abuse

$260M in Medicaid Substance Abuse Funds Left Untouched

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
ALICIA AULT
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse

Treat Substance Abuse, Mental Illness Together

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
KERRI WACHTER
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Mental Illness

Physician Substance Abuse Relapse

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Kevin Foley
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse

Substance Abuse in Older Psychiatric Inpatients

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilman Wetterling ◽  
Klaus Junghanns
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Substance Abusers ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatient ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Severe Withdrawal ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment ◽  
Clinical Diagnoses ◽  
Multiple Substance ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Substance Abuse Disorders

Abstract. Aim: This study investigates the characteristics of older patients with substance abuse disorders admitted to a psychiatric department serving about 250.000 inhabitants. Methods: The clinical diagnoses were made according to ICD-10. The data of the patients with substance abuse were compared to a matched sample of psychiatric inpatients without substance abuse as well as to a group of former substance abusers with long-term abstinence. Results: 19.3 % of the 941 patients aged > 65 years showed current substance abuse, 9.4 % consumed alcohol, 7.9 % took benzodiazepines or z-drugs (zolpidem and zopiclone), and 7.0 % smoked tobacco. Multiple substance abuse was rather common (30.8 %). About 85 % of the substance abusers had psychiatric comorbidity, and about 30 % showed severe withdrawal symptoms. As with the rest of the patients, somatic multimorbidity was present in about 70 % of the substance abusers. Remarkable was the lower rate of dementia in current substance abusers. Conclusion: These results underscore that substance abuse is still a challenge in the psychiatric inpatient treatment of older people.

Substance Abuse and Drug-Related Death, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide: A Review

Crisis ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Mino ◽  
Arnaud Bousquet ◽  
Barbara Broers
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Hiv Epidemic

The high mortality rate among drug users, which is partly due to the HIV epidemic and partly due to drug-related accidental deaths and suicides, presents a major public health problem. Knowing more about prevalence, incidence, and risk factors is important for the development of rational preventive and therapeutic programs. This article attempts to give an overview of studies of the relations between substance abuse, suicidal ideation, suicide, and drug-related death. Research in this field is hampered by the absence of clear definitions, and results of studies are rarely comparable. There is, however, consensus about suicidal ideation being a risk factor for suicide attempts and suicide. Suicidal ideation is also a predictor of suicide, especially among drug users. It is correlated with an absence of family support, with the severity of the psychosocial dysfunctioning, and with multi-drug abuse, but also with requests for treatment. Every clinical examination of a drug user, not only of those who are depressed, should address the possible presence of suicidal ideation, as well as its intensity and duration.

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