Substance misuse and psychiatric comorbidity: An overview of the OPCS national psychiatric morbidity survey

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 909-918

  Farrell, Michael ^a   Howes, Samantha ^b   Taylor, Colin ^b   Lewis, Glynn ^b   Jenkins, Rachel ^b   Bebbington, Paul ^b   Jarvis, Martin ^b   Brugha, Terry ^b   Gill, Baljit ^b   Meltzer, Howard ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; NICOTINE;

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 0031714333     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4603(98)00075-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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