Substance Misuse in the Psychiatric Emergency Service; A Descriptive Study

Substance misuse is frequently encountered in the psychiatric emergency service (PES) and may take many forms, ranging from formal DSM-IV diagnoses to less obvious entities such as hazardous consumption. Detecting such patients using traditional screening instruments has proved problematic. We there...

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Main Authors: Yves Chaput, Marie-Josέe Lebel, Lucie Beaulieu, Michel Paradis, Edith Labonté
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/SART.S13375