- Title
- The importance of investigating alcohol use among people with schizophrenia
- Creator
- Thornton, L. K.; Baker, A. L.
- Relation
- Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Vol. 128, p. 96
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acps.12114
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Alcohol use among people with schizophrenia is very common. The 2010 Australian Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP study, n = 1,812 people with schizophrenia spectrum or bipolar disorders) demonstrated over half (58.7%) of men and over a third of women (38.2%) with psychoses have a lifetime alcohol use disorder, representing a doubling in the last decade. Among this population, alcohol use has been linked to a range of adverse consequences including unemployment, lower education level, lower socio-economic status and exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms. The adverse consequences associated with co-occurring alcohol use and schizophrenia also extend to the wider community as this population tend to have greater use of expensive services such as emergency medical care and psychiatric hospitalization.
- Subject
- invited comment; alcohol use; schizophrenia; substance abuse
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1040750
- Identifier
- uon:13817
- Identifier
- ISSN:0001-690X
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Thornton, L. K. and Baker, A. L. (2013), The importance of investigating alcohol use among people with schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatr Scand, 128: 96, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acps.12114. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving
- Language
- eng
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