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Predictors of mental health service utilization in the 12 months before imprisonment: analysis of results from a national prisons surveyMichael Farrell
Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 40:548-53. 2006..To describe the self-reported history of health service utilization and help-seeking to those who are drug-dependent in the period of time prior to imprisonment...
Nicotine, alcohol and drug dependence, and psychiatric comorbidity--results of a national household surveyM Farrell
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:50-6. 2003..There is a clear relationship between dependence on nicotine, alcohol, and drugs and other psychiatric morbidity...
Acute risk of drug-related death among newly released prisoners in England and WalesMichael Farrell
National Addiction Centre, Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Addiction 103:251-5. 2008..To investigate drug-related deaths among newly released prisoners in England and Wales...
Prison based detoxification for opioid dependence: a randomised double blind controlled trial of lofexidine and methadoneCliff Howells
Prison Health Task Force, Wellington House, 133 155 Waterloo Road, SE1 8UG, London, UK
Drug Alcohol Depend 67:169-76. 2002..These results provide support for the use of lofexidine for the management of opioid detoxification in the prison setting...
Substance misuse and psychiatric comorbidity: an overview of the OPCS National Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyM Farrell
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:43-9. 2003..Future service planning needs to take account of the striking disparity of prevalence of psychiatric disorders in different subsections of the population...
Psychosis and drug dependence: results from a national survey of prisonersM Farrell
National Addiction Centre, London Royal Free and University College Medical School, London
Br J Psychiatry 181:393-8. 2002..The links between drug use and psychosis are of major aetiological and prognostic significance. Psychosis and drug dependence frequently co-occur within the prison population, providing the opportunity to study this link more closely...
Nicotine, alcohol and drug dependence and psychiatric comorbidity. Results of a national household surveyM Farrell
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, Maudsley Hospital, 4 Windsor Walk, London SE5 8AF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 179:432-7. 2001..There is a well-recognised relationship between substance use disorders and other psychiatric disorders. This relationship has been well documented in a range of population-based studies...
Substance misuse and psychiatric comorbidity: an overview of the OPCS National Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyM Farrell
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Addict Behav 23:909-18. 1998..Future service planning needs to take account of the striking disparity of prevalence of psychiatric disorders in different subsections of the population...
Drug use and initiation in prison: results from a national prison survey in England and WalesA Boys
National Addiction Centre, Kings College London, UK
Addiction 97:1551-60. 2002..There is a need to explore ways of reducing heroin initiation in prison as part of a broader risk-prevention strategy...
Unequal access and unmet need: neurotic disorders and the use of primary care servicesP Bebbington
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, RF and UCL Medical School, Institute of Psychiatry and Office for National Statistics, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:115-22. 2003..The most salient finding from our study is that even people suffering from high levels of psychiatric symptoms very often do not have contact with professionals who might help them...
Psychiatric morbidity and substance use in young people aged 13-15 years: results from the Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental HealthA Boys
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 182:509-17. 2003..Psychoactive substance use is strongly associated with psychiatric morbidity in both adults and adolescents...
The National Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys of Great Britain--initial findings from the household surveyR Jenkins
The Mental Health Division, Department of Health, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University College London Medical School, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:29-42. 2003..For the first time, the survey provides data on the prevalence and correlates of psychiatric disorder on a nationwide sample that can be used to inform equitable and effective national psychiatric services...
Psychiatric symptoms among clients seeking treatment for drug dependence. Intake data from the National Treatment Outcome Research StudyJ Marsden
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry Maudsley Hospital, London
Br J Psychiatry 176:285-9. 2000..Many people with substance use disorders are vulnerable to other psychiatric disorders and present to addiction treatment services with comorbid psychiatric symptoms...
The reluctance to seek treatment for neurotic disordersH Meltzer
Office for National Statistics, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:123-8. 2003..The attitudes detected in our subjects with neurotic disorder help to explain why people do not always seek effective help for their mental disorders, and are indicators of a worrying public education gap that will be hard to bridge...
Neurotic disorders and the receipt of psychiatric treatmentP Bebbington
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, RF and UCL Medical School, Institute of Psychiatry and Office for National Statistics, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:108-14. 2003..In many cases, this must represent unmet needs with a strong claim on health resources. There are also inequalities in the receipt of treatment, although the major influence is the severity of disorder...
Debt, income and mental disorder in the general populationR Jenkins
WHO Collaborating Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
Psychol Med 38:1485-93. 2008..This study tests the hypothesis that the association between low income and mental disorder is mediated by debt and its attendant financial hardship...
The National Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys of Great Britain--strategy and methodsR Jenkins
Mental Health Division, Department of Health, Department of Psychiatry, University College London Medical School, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:5-13. 2003..These surveys provide a possible model for similar surveys in other countries...
British Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyR Jenkins
WHO Collaborating Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:14-8. 2003
The influence of age and sex on the prevalence of depressive conditions: report from the National Survey of Psychiatric MorbidityP Bebbington
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University College London Medical School, Institute of Psychiatry and Office of National Statistics, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:74-83. 2003..This may be linked to the menopause, and our attempts to explain it in terms of obvious conditions among social variables were not successful. More specific studies are required to clarify the finding...
Depression and common mental disorders in lone parents: results of the 2000 National Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyC Cooper
UCL Department of Mental Health Sciences, Charles Bell House, 67 73 Riding House Street, London, UK
Psychol Med 38:335-42. 2008..We aimed to determine the relative contributions of financial strain and decreased social support to the excess of depression and common mental disorders (CMD) in lone parents...
The Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP): a brief instrument for assessing treatment outcomeJ Marsden
National Addiction Centre, Maudsley Hospital Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Addiction 93:1857-67. 1998..The Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP) is the first instrument to be developed in the United Kingdom for this purpose...
Substance misuse among prisoners in England and WalesN Singleton
Office for National Statistics, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 15:150-2. 2003
Happiness across age groups: results from the 2007 National Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyC Cooper
UCL Department of Mental Health Sciences Bloomsbury Campus, 67 73 Riding House Street, 2nd Floor, Charles Bell House, London, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 26:608-14. 2011..To test our hypotheses that happiness declines with age, and that age moderates the relationship of other influences on happiness, so that they vary in different age groups...
A double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial of lofexidine in alcohol withdrawal: lofexidine is not a useful adjunct to chlordiazepoxideF Keaney
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and The Maudsley Hospital, 4 Windsor Walk, London SE5 8AF, UK
Alcohol Alcohol 36:426-30. 2001..Lofexidine provides no discernible benefit as an adjunctive medication (to chlordiazepoxide) in alcohol detoxification and, on the basis of our study, appears to be contra-indicated...
Randomized trial of supervised injectable versus oral methadone maintenance: report of feasibility and 6-month outcomeJ Strang
National Addiction Centre, Maudsley Hospital Institute of Psychiatry, 4, Windsor Walk, London SE5 8AF, UK
Addiction 95:1631-45. 2000..To assess the feasibility of a randomized clinical trial of supervised injectable versus oral methadone maintenance and to assess medium-term treatment outcomes...
Estimating the prevalence of problem drug use in inner London: a discussion of three capture-recapture studiesM Hickman
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
Addiction 94:1653-62. 1999..To provide an evidence base of estimates of the prevalence of problem drug use in inner London...
Trends in cannabis use prior to first presentation with schizophrenia, in South-East London between 1965 and 1999J Boydell
Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Psychol Med 36:1441-6. 2006....
A review of biological indicators of illicit drug use, practical considerations and clinical usefulnessK Wolff
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK
Addiction 94:1279-98. 1999..To examine a range of biological indicators of illicit drug use, including blood, urine, hair and saliva, addressing both technological and practical issues relating to their application and interpretation...
Prevalence and correlates of self-reported psychotic symptoms in the British populationLouise C Johns
Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 185:298-305. 2004..The psychosis phenotype is generally thought of as a categorical entity. However, there is increasing evidence that psychosis exists in the population as a continuum of severity rather than an all-or-none phenomenon...
An evaluation of a brief motivational intervention among young ecstasy and cocaine users: no effect on substance and alcohol use outcomesJohn Marsden
Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
Addiction 101:1014-26. 2006..To investigate whether a stimulant- and alcohol-focused brief motivational intervention induces positive behaviour change among young, regular users of MDMA ('ecstasy'), cocaine powder and crack cocaine...
Concurrent and construct validity of the audit in an urban brazilian sampleCarlos Tadeu Lima
Institute of Psychiatry, Section of Epidemiology, PO Box 60, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AF, London, UK
Alcohol Alcohol 40:584-9. 2005..To assess the concurrent and the construct validity of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in an urban Brazilian sample...
The relative impact of waiting time and treatment entry on drug and alcohol useDavid Best
National Addiction Centre The Maudsley Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London, UK
Addict Biol 7:67-74. 2002....
Minimizing respondent attrition in longitudinal research: practical implications from a cohort study of adolescent drinkingAnnabel Boys
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, Addiction Sciences Building, 4 Windsor Walk, London SE5 8AF, UK
J Adolesc 26:363-73. 2003..The success of the current project is notable as this type of population is notoriously difficult to retain in longitudinal studies...
Development of the Treatment Outcomes ProfileJohn Marsden
Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry King s College London, 4 Windsor Walk, London, UK
Addiction 103:1450-60. 2008..To develop the Treatment Outcomes Profile (TOP), a new instrument for monitoring substance misuse treatment...
Effectiveness of community treatments for heroin and crack cocaine addiction in England: a prospective, in-treatment cohort studyJohn Marsden
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry King s College London, London, UK
Lancet 374:1262-70. 2009..We present the first effectiveness study of the main community interventions for addiction to heroin and crack cocaine in England, using data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)...
National survey of hepatitis testing and vaccination services provided by drug services in England and WalesA R Winstock
The National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry Maudsley Hospital, London, UK
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 19:823-8. 2000..The disparity between recommended policy and current practice needs to be urgently addressed...
Harm reduction the key to managing problem drug usersWilliam Flannery
National Alcohol Unit, Maudsley Hospital, London
Practitioner 251:99, 101-6. 2007
Obsessive-compulsive disorder: prevalence, comorbidity, impact, and help-seeking in the British National Psychiatric Morbidity Survey of 2000Albina R Torres
Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Am J Psychiatry 163:1978-85. 2006..The authors aimed to establish obsessive-compulsive disorder prevalence and its clinical typology among adults in private households in Great Britain and to obtain generalizable estimates of impairment and help-seeking...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and personality disorder: evidence from the British National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity 2000Albina R Torres
Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Botucatu Medical School, UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil, and Department of Forensic Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s Hospital, London, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:862-7. 2006..We analysed the prevalence of screen positive personality disorder in a representative sample of adults with OCD living in private households in the UK...
Psychosis in the community and in prisons: a report from the British National Survey of psychiatric morbidityTraolach Brugha
University of Leicester, Department of Health Sciences, Brandon Mental Health Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Rd, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK
Am J Psychiatry 162:774-80. 2005..Longitudinal research is needed to better understand these prevalence differences...
Pharmacological treatment of cocaine dependence: a systematic reviewMauricio Silva de Lima
Addiction 97:931-49. 2002..This systematic review assesses critically the efficacy of pharmacotherapy for treating cocaine dependence...
Validation of the Alcohol, Smoking And Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)Rachel Humeniuk
Drug and Alcohol, Services Council, Adelaide, Australia
Addiction 103:1039-47. 2008..The concurrent, construct and discriminative validity of the World Health Organization's Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) were examined in a multi-site international study...
Drug-related mortality and fatal overdose risk: pilot cohort study of heroin users recruited from specialist drug treatment sites in LondonMatthew Hickman
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Social Science and Medicine, Imperial College, London
J Urban Health 80:274-87. 2003..The pilot study showed that these studies are feasible and ethical, and that specialist drug agencies could have a vital role to play in the monitoring of drug-related mortality...
Risk factors and the prevalence of neurosis and psychosis in ethnic groups in Great BritainTraolach Brugha
University of Leicester, Section of Social and Epidemiological Psychiatry, Department of Health Sciences, Brandon Mental Health Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 39:939-46. 2004..97; 95% CI: 0.66, 13.36). CONCLUSIONS: The excess of psychosis in Africans and Afro-Caribbeans in Great Britain appears to be partly explained by socio-economic disadvantage, but larger studies are needed to confirm this...
Socio-economic status in childhood and later alcohol use: a systematic reviewNicola J Wiles
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Addiction 102:1546-63. 2007..To conduct a systematic review of longitudinal studies that examined the association between childhood socio-economic status (SES) and alcohol use in later life...
Alpha2-adrenergic agonists in opioid withdrawalLinda R Gowing
Evidence Based Practice Unit, Drug and Alcohol Services Council, Parkside, SA, Australia
Addiction 97:49-58. 2002..This paper presents the main findings of a systematic (Cochrane) review of the effectiveness of alpha2-adrenergic agonists in managing opioid withdrawal...
The National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity among prisoners and the future of prison healthcareJeremy Coid
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, William Harvey House, 61 Bartholomew Close, London EC1A 7BE
Med Sci Law 42:245-50. 2002..The ultimate test of the survey will be whether it provides a benchmark to evaluate the future effectiveness of the new policy changes...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Ireland: epidemiological aspects 1980-2002Gail Horan
Department of Neuropathology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
Eur Neurol 51:132-7. 2004....
Violence and psychiatric morbidity in a national household population--a report from the British Household SurveyJeremy Coid
Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 164:1199-208. 2006..Despite public concern, the risks of violence from persons with severe mental illness were very low...
Violence and psychiatric morbidity in the national household population of Britain: public health implicationsJeremy Coid
Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, St Bartholomew s Hospital, William Harvey House, 61 Bartholomew Close, London ECIA 7BE, UK
Br J Psychiatry 189:12-9. 2006..It is unclear whether psychiatric morbidity contributes to the small proportion of the population responsible for a large percentage of antisocial behaviour, including violence...
Psychosis, victimisation and childhood disadvantage: evidence from the second British National Survey of Psychiatric MorbidityPaul E Bebbington
Department of Mental Health Sciences, 48 Riding House Street, London W1N 8EY, UK
Br J Psychiatry 185:220-6. 2004..Adverse early circumstances may be more common in people who later develop psychotic disorders...
Trends in service use and treatment for mental disorders in adults throughout Great BritainTraolach S Brugha
Brandon Mental Health Unit, Department of Health Sciences, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK
Br J Psychiatry 185:378-84. 2004..Trends in health treatments and outcomes in the general population may be used to monitor achievement of health targets...
Cochrane systematic reviews: time for an introduction and appraisalWalter Ling
Drug Alcohol Depend 73:217-8. 2004
Wartime Paris, cirrhosis mortality, and the ceteris paribus assumptionKaye Middleton Fillmore
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco 94143 0612, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:436-46. 2002..Paris's wartime circumstances deviate substantially from the "all else being equal" assumption, and at least three other hypotheses for the cirrhosis decline may be contemplated...
Early death from paracetamol (acetaminophen) induced fulminant hepatic failure without cerebral oedemaP Aiden McCormick
Liver Unit, St Vincent s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland
J Hepatol 39:547-51. 2003..In fatal cases the most frequent causes of death are cerebral oedema in the early phase or sepsis and multiorgan failure later. However some patients do not fit this pattern...
Pediatric residents' use of jargon during counseling about newborn genetic screening resultsMichael Farrell
Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226 0509, USA
Pediatrics 122:243-9. 2008..The goal was to investigate pediatric residents' usage of jargon during discussions about positive newborn screening test results...
Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for anxiety and depression: results from the longitudinal follow-up of the National Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyJonathan C Haynes
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 187:544-51. 2005..Longitudinal studies have been in conclusive in identifying alcohol as a risk factor for anxiety and depression...
Brief report: Methadone treatment of injecting opioid users for prevention of HIV infectionLinda R Gowing
University of Adelaide and Drug and Alcohol Services, South Australia, Australia
J Gen Intern Med 21:193-5. 2006..To assess the effects of oral substitution treatment for opioid-dependent injecting drug users on HIV risk behaviors and infections...
Living with the Ilizarov frame: adolescent perceptionsLinda Martin
Alder Hey Royal Liverpool Children s NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK
J Adv Nurs 43:478-87. 2003..We wished to gain a richer insight into the experiences of adolescents living with the frame by drawing on both qualitative and quantitative approaches...
Treatment seeking by individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder from the british psychiatric morbidity survey of 2000Albina R Torres
Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Botucatu Medical School, Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Distrito de Rubião Jr, Botucatú São Paulo, Brazil, 18618 970
Psychiatr Serv 58:977-82. 2007..However, data on treatment seeking from community samples are scant. This study analyzed service use by adults with OCD living in private households in Great Britain...
Cervical lipoblastomatosis producing quadriparesis: case report of surgery with chemotherapy and 10-year follow-upDonncha O'Brien
Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Liverpool Children s Hospital NHS Trust, Alder Hey, Eaton Road, Liverpool, L12 2AP, UK
Childs Nerv Syst 21:165-70. 2005..Cervical lipoblastomatosis is a rare spinal tumour. Management of recurrence and long-term outcome data are not well described...
Methadone tolerance testing in drug misusers: beyond the edge of safetyDeborah A Zador
BMJ 333:1172-3; author reply 1173. 2006
