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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.