Violence and self-harm in severe mental illness: inpatient study of associations with ethnicity, cannabis and alcohol.

CONCLUSIONS: Cannabis use is a significant predictor of lifetime violence among the severely mentally ill, while both alcohol and cannabis use predict self-harm. Few affected patients receive specific treatment for substance use comorbidity.
PMID: 27679634 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - September 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dharmawardene V, Menkes DB Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research