Substance abuse and recovery in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit

Short-term prediction of threatening and violent behaviour in an Acute Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit based on patient and environment characteristics

“…In the present study substance abuse was extensively assessed. Our study indicates that presence of substance use diagnoses do not facilitate threatening and violent behaviour among patients in a PICU setting [38]. …”

Drugs of abuse among acute psychiatric and medical admissions: laboratory based identification of prevalence and drug influence

“…With this exception, the study was conducted in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki (167). Other recent studies have also been performed without informed consent of the patients (80,90), and some previous studies performed drug analyses under the guise of other somatic tests (143,148). We experienced in the main project that informed consent very well can be obtained, within a few days after admission, and we recommend future studies to do so.…”

“…There are, however, studies using PANSS among acute admissions and among patients with bipolar disorders, for example, and serious validity problems have not been reported (80,175). Also, its face validity was good, and in unpublished material from a psychiatric intensive care unit, excellent inter-rater reliability was found in assessing 12 consecutively admitted in-patients (102).…”

Gender differences in 353 inpatients with acute psychosis: The experience of one Psychiatric Emergency Service of Turin

“…In a previous study (Frieri et al, 2014) male gender raised the SUD risk almost threefold, after controlling for psychiatric history and clinical status. The sex difference may be due to higher rates of exposure to heavy alcohol-and drug-use in males than in females and this is particularly true in males with mental disorders (Compton et al, 2000; Kessler et al, 1997) and in psychiatric inpatients (Lambert et al, 1996;Hansen et al, 2000;Mueser et al, 2000;Bonsack et al, 2006;Vaaler et al, 2006). However, in the last decades, gender roles have changed in many societies and some studies suggest that the drinking and substance use patterns of men and women are converging (Seedat et al, 2009).…”