Co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders among male detainees in Italy

Psychiatric needs of male prison inmates in Italy

“…Likewise, rates of Axis I disorders our sample appear lower than those among jail inmates in Italy; although rates of Axis 2 disorders were somewhat higher (Lusignani et al, 2006;Piselli, Elisei, Murgia, Quartesan, & Abram, 2009;Zoccali et al, 2008).…”

Mental disorders in Italian prisoners: Results of the REDiMe study

“…This may cause mismatch due to different methodologies and socio-demographic differences between samples. Sometimes, past investigations used no controls at all (Piselli et al, 2009;Zoccali et al, 2008).…”

“…The scarcity of community-based mental health programmes able and willing to provide treatment to people released from prison has been suggested to contribute to the risk of re-incarceration in substance abusers (Baillargeon et al, 2010). Substance use disorders also negatively impact the chance of having a paid job, thus hampering the financial independence of those affected by them (Piselli et al, 2009). …”

“…With the exception of bipolar disorder (Fazel et al, 2010), there is no evidence that mood or anxiety disorders are a factor involved in the risk of offending; in fact, they might be protective against this risk. Moreover, people with mood or anxiety disorders have a greater chance of receiving proper treatment than those with substance use disorders (Piselli et al, 2009), psychoses (Bradford et al, 2008), or antisocial personality disorder (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK), 2010). Available treatments for mood and anxiety disorders are also more effective than those available for the treatment of substance use disorders, psychoses or antisocial personality disorder (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK), 2010; Najt et al, 2011;Nasrallah et al, 2008).…”

Patología dual y trastornos mentales en reclusos consumidores de sustancias = Dual pathology and mental disorders in substance-using prisoners

“…Los escasos estudios disponibles seña-lan una comorbilidad elevada entre TCS y trastornos psicológicos del Eje I (Andersen, 2004, Fazel y Danesh, 2002, situándose según datos recientes, en el 26,3% en Francia (Lukasiewicz et al, 2009) o el 20.9% en Italia (Piselli et al, 2009). Esta comorbilidad se da principalmente con trastornos afectivos y de ansiedad (Butler y Alnutt, 2003;Jordan, Federman, Burns, Schlenger, Fairbank y Caddell, 2002).…”