Drug Abuse in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- Vol. 15 (3) , 291-295
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00952998908993409
Abstract
The incidence and type of drug abuse for 50 male schizophrenic patients and 60 male and female bipolar, manic patients were determined. Fifty percent of schizophrenic patients and 25% of bipolar patients abused one or more drugs. Alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine accounted for 82% of the drug abuse.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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