Substance-Related Disorders - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults.

7 Oct 2009 Only half of older adults with a mental disorder use mental health services, and little is known about the causes of perceived need for mental health care (MHC). We used logistic regression to examine relationships among depression, anxiety, chronic ... Read more...

Changes in at-risk behavior for HIV infection among HIV-positive persons in Italy.

29 Sep 2009 Many HIV-positive persons reportedly continue to engage in at-risk behavior. We compared the sexual and drug-using practices of HIV-positive persons before and after the diagnosis of HIV infection to determine whether their behavior had changed. To ... Read more...

A developmental twin study of church attendance and alcohol and nicotine consumption: a model for analyzing the changing impact of genes and environment.

13 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Church attendance is one of the most consistent predictors of alcohol and nicotine consumption. The authors sought to clarify changes in the role of genetic and environmental factors in influencing church attendance and the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Substance-Related Disorders - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• New models of collaboration between criminal justice and mental health systems. 30 Oct 2009
• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• Changes in at-risk behavior for HIV infection among HIV-positive persons in Italy. 29 Sep 2009
• A developmental twin study of church attendance and alcohol and nicotine consumption: a model for analyzing the changing impact of genes and environment. 13 Sep 2009
• Parenting practices and problem behavior across three generations: monitoring, harsh discipline, and drug use in the intergenerational transmission of externalizing behavior. 30 Aug 2009
• Gangster, victim or both? The interdiscursive construction of sameness and difference in self-presentations. 30 Aug 2009
• Caffeine expectancy: instrument development in the Rasch measurement framework. 30 Aug 2009
• Longitudinal association between frequency of substance use and quality of life among adolescents receiving a brief outpatient intervention. 30 Aug 2009
• Risk behaviours in HIV-positive men who have sex with men participating in an intervention in a primary care setting. 30 Aug 2009
• Bipolar spectrum-substance use co-occurrence: Behavioral approach system (BAS) sensitivity and impulsiveness as shared personality vulnerabilities. 30 Aug 2009
• The neurocircuitry of impaired insight in drug addiction. 25 Aug 2009
• Influence of gender, sexual orientation, and need on treatment utilization for substance use and mental disorders: findings from the California Quality of Life Survey. 12 Aug 2009
• Burden of psychiatric morbidity among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals in the California Quality of Life Survey. 30 Jul 2009
• [Doping in the workplace - no longer a taboo subject. Deutschen Angestellten Karnkenkasse health report 2009 ] 30 Jul 2009
• [Illness caused by work--employees provide alarming figures] 30 Jul 2009
• The impact of emotional and material social support on women's drug treatment completion. 30 Jul 2009
• The impaired surgeon: revisiting Halstead. 30 Jul 2009
• [Addiction in DSM V and ICD-11 state of the art] 28 Jul 2009
• Validity of cognitive complaints in substance-abusing patients and non-clinical controls: the Patient's Assessment of Own Functioning Inventory (PAOFI). 17 Jul 2009
• Racial/ethnic differences in correlates of prescription drug misuse among young adults. 16 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Substance-Related Disorders'

Definition: Disorders related to substance abuse, the side effects of a medication, toxin exposure, and ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS.

Descriptor UI: D019966

Alternative terms: Substance-Related Disorders; Drug Dependence; Dependence, Drug; Drug Addiction; Addiction, Drug; Drug Habituation; Habituation, Drug; Drug Usage; Usage, Drug; Substance Use Disorders; Disorder, Substance Use; Substance Use Disorder; Glue Sniffing; Sniffing, Glue; Organic Mental Disorders, Substance-Induced; Organic Mental Disorders, Substance Induced; Substance Abuse; Abuse, Substance; Abuses, Substance; Substance Abuses; Substance Dependence; Dependence, Substance; Substance Addiction; Addiction, Substance; Drug Abuse; Abuse, Drug; Drug Use Disorders; Disorder, Drug Use; Drug Use Disorder;

Related Mesh Headings: Drug and Narcotic Control; Psychoses, Alcoholic; Street Drugs; Designer Drugs; Codependency (Psychology); Alcohol-Related Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739; F03.900;

History Note: 98(63)

Technical Notes: consider also PSYCHOSES, SUBSTANCE-INDUCED or PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC; /diag: consider SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION