The relationship of lifetime polysubstance dependence to trauma exposure, symptomatology, and psychosocial functioning in incarcerated women with comorbid PTSD and substance use disorder

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 9-26

  Salgado, Dawn M ^a   Quinlan, Kristen J ^b   Zlotnick, Caron ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Brown Medical School ^*

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Incarcerated women; Polysubstance dependence; PTSD SUD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DISASTER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEW ENGLAND; PRISONERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84905770238     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: 15299740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J229v08n02_02     Document Type: Article

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