Co-morbidity of substance use and mental disorders. What do we know on the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in Europe and what are the ways forward?

Summary

Co-morbidity - in the present case - involves the occurrence of mental illness and drug use in the same person simultaneously. At a European level there is a need for more harmonised information on this phenomenon.

Taylor & Francis online

Category:

Scientific article

Date:

15 March 2013

Access:

Open access

Geographical scope:

EU/Europe

Journal:

Mental Health and Substance Use

6, 2, p.97–100, 2013

Authors:

Montanari, L., Baldacchino, A., Pasinetti, M., Thanki, D. and Vicente, J

Publisher's DOI:

10.1080/17523281.2013.770654

Document language:

English

Main subject

research

Keywords

comorbidity

EMCDDA