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Drug Use and Mental Health: Effective Responses to Co-Occurring Drug and Mental Health Problems

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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

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