Recent illicit drug use among psychiatric patients in Brazil: a national representative study

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate factors associated to illicit drug use among patients with mental illness in Brazil according to gender. METHODS A cross-sectional representative sample of psychiatric patients (2,475 individuals) was randomly selected from 11 hospitals and 15 public mental health...

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Main Authors: Miriam Almeida Nahas, Ana Paula Souto Melo, Francine Cournos, Karen Mckinnon, Milton Wainberg, Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2017-08-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102017000100263&lng=en&tlng=en