Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Comorbidity among HIV Seropositive and HIV Seronegative Prisoners in Malaysia.
Conclusion: These findings suggest that a public health approach that simultaneously addresses psychiatric illnesses, substance abuse, and HIV infection is needed in both the correctional and the community settings in order to provide adequate care for triply-diagnosed patients and prevent them from returning to prison.
PMID: 20141394 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
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Written by Indy on February 12, 2010 at 17:05
Filed Under: Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Tags: alcohol, alcohol-abuse, both-the-correctional, correctional, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, from-returning, hiv, pmid, provide-adequate, public-health, simultaneously-addresses, substance-abuse
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