Schizophrenia comorbid substance abuse

Hunt GE, Bergen J Bashir M (2002). Medication compliance and comorbid substance abuse in schizophrenia impact on community survival 4 years after relapse. Schizo-prenia Research, 54, 253-64... 

Kavanagh DJ, White A Young R (2000). Towards an integrated and sensitive family intervention for comorbid substance abuse and schizophrenia a comment on Sheils and Rolfe. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 21. 88-90... 

Compared with persons without a psychiatric diagnosis, the one year prevalence of violence is five to six times higher in patients with serious mental illness in the community (Swanson et al., 1990). The risk for aggression is increased further in patients with severe mental illness who are hospitalized (Tardiff et al., 1997 Owen et al., 1999 Barlow et al., 2000) and in patients with comorbid schizophrenia and substance abuse (Steadman et al., 1998 Elbogen Johnson, 2009). Thus, patients with schizophrenia represent a group at elevated risk for violence. 

Psychosocial morbidity association. Cannabis dependence is a prevalent comorbid substance use disorder among patients early in the course of a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder. Among 29 eligible patients, 18 participated in the study. First-episode patients with comorbid cannabis dependence (n = 8) reported significantly greater childhood physical and sexual abuse compared with those without comorbid cannabis dependence (n = 10). The result indicated the preliminary evidence of an association between childhood maltreatment and cannabis dependence among this especially vulnerable population. Child-... 

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