Substance-Related Disorders - Rehabilitation
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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...

[Withdrawal syndrome after abuse of GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate) and its physiological precursors - its relevance for child and adolescent psychiatrists]

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: The chronic abuse of Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) as a designer drug as well as it's physiological precursors Gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL) and 1,4-Butandiole (1,4-BD) confronts child and adolescent psychiatrists with new challenges. The ... Read more...

Longitudinal association between frequency of substance use and quality of life among adolescents receiving a brief outpatient intervention.

30 Aug 2009 Recognition of the broad consequences of adolescent substance abuse has led to increased emphasis on balancing traditional measures of treatment effectiveness, such as frequency of substance use, with measures of patient functioning and quality of ... Read more...

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

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• [Withdrawal syndrome after abuse of GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate) and its physiological precursors - its relevance for child and adolescent psychiatrists] 30 Aug 2009
• Impairment by psychiatric disorders, including alcoholism and drug dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• Longitudinal association between frequency of substance use and quality of life among adolescents receiving a brief outpatient intervention. 30 Aug 2009
• Anesthesiologists with substance use disorders: a 5-year outcome study from 16 state physician health programs. 30 Aug 2009
• Not all strikes are easy to call. 30 Aug 2009
• Neonatal findings among children of substance-abusing women attending a special child welfare clinic in Norway. 19 Jul 2009
• Relations among psychopathology, substance use, and physical pain experiences in methadone-maintained patients. 12 Jul 2009
• A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between attentional bias and subjective craving in substance abuse. 29 Jun 2009
• Client-reported reasons for non-engagement in drug and alcohol treatment. 29 Jun 2009
• Predictors of 3-month retention in a drug treatment therapeutic community. 29 Jun 2009
• Scope of agency control: assertive community treatment teams' supervision of consumers. 29 Jun 2009
• VA intensive mental health case management in urban and rural areas: veteran characteristics and service delivery. 29 Jun 2009
• Dropout from outpatient mental health care in the United States. 29 Jun 2009
• A national action plan for workforce development in behavioral health. 29 Jun 2009
• What is "women-focused" treatment for substance use disorders? 29 Jun 2009
• Comment on "Outcomes of DATA certification trainings for the provision of buprenorphine treatment in the Veterans Health Administration". 29 Jun 2009
• Theories of addiction: methamphetamine users' explanations for continuing drug use and relapse. 29 Jun 2009
• Medication assisted treatment in the treatment of drug abuse and dependence in HIV/AIDS infected drug users. 29 Jun 2009
• An examination of mandated versus voluntary referral as a determinant of clinical outcome. 29 Jun 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