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Due to the consumption of drugs
In case of mental disorder, drug and alcohol abuse seven times increased risk of violence, indicating that health strategies aimed at reducing violence should be focused on drug prevention. People with a diagnosis of severe mental illness develop only when comorbid aggressive behavior.
Alcohol is the third among twenty-six risk factors for ill health in the European Union, beating overweight and obesity and behind only the snuff and hypertension. Several experts have analyzed the Fifteenth National Congress of Psychiatry, the relationship between alcohol and violence.
Josep Guard, Senior Consultant of Addictive Behaviour Unit of the Psychiatry of the Hospital San Pablo, Barcelona, ??and vice Socidrogalcohol, has referred to the false belief that the risk of violent behavior is higher in people with a diagnosis severe mental disorder. However, in general these patients only when they also develop aggressive acts have abused alcohol or drugs.
In the case of schizophrenia most of the risk of violence due to alcohol and drug abuse, bipolar disorder in all of the risk is due to abuse. What happens is that 60 percent of patients with TBP-1 also have drug and alcohol abuse.
In the case of psychotic disorder comorbidity with substance abuse, risk of violence is similar to that exhibited by people with and without psychotic disorder abuse.
In people with severe mental illness abuse alcohol and drugs increases to seven times the risk of violence, particularly homicide, assault, sexual assault, intimidation or arson.
The risk of homicide can be 38 percent when a paranoid psychotic disorder is associated with alcohol dependence.
The prevention of violent crime and recidivism involves the detection and diagnosis of alcohol and drug abuse and its treatment in people with severe mental disorder.
Early detection tool in the consumption of addictive substances
The Minister of Health and Human Services, Jose Ignacio Nieto, accompanied by the Director General of Public Health and Consumer Affairs, Jose Miguel Acitores, attended the first day of the course ‘Vulnerable Children and Substance Use: Detection and Intervention’, which held in the CIBIR from today until November 30.
This activity, organized by the Directorate General of Public Health and Consumer Affairs, involving 40 experts in care for young social disadvantaged, aims to provide specialized training in early detection and intervention of the addictions field.
This has fostered communication and coordination of all public and private institutions working with tweens and teens who have some risk of becoming problem drug users of any addictive substance.
This training initiative arises from the need for coordination and synergy of forces that must exist between the fields of Health and Human Services to improve the care of children at risk.
This training initiative with 40 participants are participating the Association for Children Rioja (APIRO) Pioneers Foundation; municipalities of Logrono, Arnedo, Alfaro, Rincon de Soto and Haro diagram Foundation, which manages the residence and floors Iregua children’s home; Association and the New Future and Spanish Red Cross.
The course covers all the content relating to addictions and children, starting from general concepts to get one to obtain and develop, after intensive training, skills and abilities to the detection and treatment of adolescent motivation and design a program specific intervention.
Intervention in disadvantaged contexts
According to a WHO report, a fifth of teenagers under 18 suffer a problem of developmental, emotional or behavioral problems, and “one of eight” has a mental disorder, a proportion that rises to “one of five” among socially disadvantaged children: poverty and child abuse are common factors in depression, anxiety and substance abuse. Read the rest of this entry »