Journal of Alcoholism & Drug Dependence
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Agneta Öjehagen

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• Research Article
  Hazardous Substance Use among People with Psychiatric Disabilities Visiting Day Centers
  Author(s): Mona Eklund and Agneta ÖjehagenMona Eklund and Agneta Öjehagen
  
  Objective: People who suffer from psychiatric illness have a more than doubled lifetime risk of acquiring an alcohol or drug use disorder. Furthermore, hazardous substance use impairs treatment outcomes and protracts the duration of illness among people with mental disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate substance use among people with psychiatric disabilities receiving municipality-based mental health services, any associations to socio-demographic and well-being variables, to diagnosis or to level of functioning, and any changes at a 15-month follow-up. Methods: One-hundred-and-twenty-three persons with psychiatric disabilities but no diagnosed substance use disorder participated and completed the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and the Drug Use Disorders Identification Test (DUDIT) at baseline and the follow-.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-6488.1000305

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