Treatment of the mentally ill in prisons and jails: Follow-up care needed

Drug Benefit Trends

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 20-21

  Pomerantz, Jay M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; TRANQUILIZER;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AFTERCARE; BORDERLINE STATE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRIME; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; OFFENDER; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRISON; PROBABILITY; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0038721689     PISSN: 10805826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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