Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction: Mental health and drug problems – What is the Issue?
Steve Allsop

PART 1 PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CO-OCCURRING MENTAL HEALTH AND DRUG PROBLEMS

Introduction

1 A tale of two psyches
Rosco Woods

2 Drugs and mental health problems: Parents' perspectives
Tony Trimingham

3 A General Practitioners' view of co-occurring mental health and drug-related problems
Rupert Backhouse

4 Systemic problems at the interface of psychiatric and drug treatment services
Lois Achimovich

5 Living the label
Siobhan Delgado

PART 2 CO-OCCURRING MENTAL HEALTH AND DRUG PROBLEMS: CHALLENGES

Introduction

6 Challenges posed by co-occurring disorders in the clinical and service systems
Heather Proudfoot and Maree Teeson

7 Problems in responding to co-occurring mental health and drug-related problems – a Criminal justice perspective
Andrew Day and Kevin Howells

8 Issues in responding to co-occurring mental health and drug-related problems: a Clinician's perspective
Stephen Knightbridge, Kate Hall, Robert King and Timothy Rolfe

9 Co-morbidity and public policy
Cheryl Wilson

PART 3 CO-OCCURRING DRUG AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS: THE EVIDENCE

Introduction

10 Alcohol and drug use disorders and the anxiety disorders: Co-occurrence, relationship, assessment and treatment implications
Richard P Mattick and Susannah O'Brien

11 Drug Use and depression: Evidence on the association and potential reasons to explain it
Louisa Degenhardt

12 Suicide: The hidden issue
Shane Darke

13 Co-occurring drug and personality disorders
Ali Marsh

14 Problematic drug use in young people with first episode psychosis
Mark Hinton, Jane Edwards, Kathryn Elkins, and Darryl Wade

15 Co-occurring post-traumatic stress disorder and drug disorders
Ali Marsh

16 Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and co-morbid drug use
Alison Barton and David A Hay

PART 4 CLINICAL RESPONSES FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CO-OCCURRING MENTAL HEALTH AND DRUG PROBLEMS

Introduction

17 Alcohol and depression
Dan I Lubman and Leanne Hides

18 Antisocial personality disorder and drug use
Adam Brett

19 Cannabis and psychosis: What is the association, and what can be done about it?
David J Castle and Michael Cole

20 Amphetamine type stimulants and schizophrenia
Michael Baigent

21 Responding to co-occurring drug use and complex post traumatic stress disorder
Tania Towers

References

Index