Substance Use, Abuse, and Disorder Within Forensic Psychiatry

Multi-substance use can cause severe psychosis, leading to violations of the law. Purposes: To describe clinical features of psychosis in multi-subtance use in forensic psychiatry. Objects and research methods: Retrospective 52 examination records of criminal offenders solicited by procedural authorities at the Central Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, were diagnosed by the cxamination council using multi-substance in 2017 and 2018. Result: The study subjects are mainly male (94,2%), the average age is 34,94 ± 7,05, unstable occupation (50%) or unemployed (38,5%), low level of education (100%). 34,6% have delusions, 44,2% have hallucinations. Persecutory delusion was the most frequent delusion (66,7%), followed by delusion of being followed (22,2%); conversational hallucination is most encountered (56,7%); followed by the command hallucination (26,1%).

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Evaluation of psychiatric diagnosis, substance use situations, sociodemographic and clinical features of cases in forensic psychiatry unit

Yeni Symposium ◽

10.5455/nys.20140827121119 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 52 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

mit Copoglu ◽

Feridun Bulbul ◽

M Kokacya ◽

Demet Alici ◽

Mehmet Tastan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Clinical Features ◽

Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽

Forensic Psychiatry

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Forensic Psychiatry, Substance Use and Mental Illness

Principles of Addictions and the Law ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-496736-6.00014-1 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 203-227

Author(s):

Joel M. Silberberg ◽

Adair Crosley

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Substance Use ◽

Forensic Psychiatry

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Correctional Settings

10.1093/med/9780190610999.003.0018 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Elizabeth Ford

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Substance Use ◽

North America ◽

Forensic Psychiatry ◽

Models Of Care ◽

Care Provision ◽

People With Mental Illness ◽

Large Numbers ◽

Correctional Settings ◽

Public Psychiatrists

Correctional settings could represent an opportunity to provide treatment and rehabilitation for the disproportionately large numbers of people with mental illness who are incarcerated. Public psychiatrists have developed compassionate models of care for these individuals in prisons throughout North America, and they have worked to prevent victimization of individuals in these contexts. Risks including substance use, violence, and suicide are among the challenges that psychiatrists manage in these settings, and continuity of care following release into the community presents broad systemic challenges as well. The forensic psychiatry chapter’s discussion of diversion and fitness restoration dovetails with the focus on care provision within correctional settings explored in this chapter.

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