Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The relationship between self-reported substance use and psychiatric symptoms in low-threshold methadone maintenance treatment clients | Fulton et al. Harm Reduction Journal 2011 8 18 http content 8 1 18 HARM REDUCTION JOURNAL RESEARCH Open Access The relationship between self-reported substance use and psychiatric symptoms in low-threshold methadone maintenance treatment clients Heather G Fulton1 Sean P Barrett1 2 Cindy MacIsaac3 and Sherry H Stewart2 1 Abstract Background Ongoing psychiatric symptoms and substance use are common difficulties experienced by clients enrolled in methadone maintenance treatment MMT . However little research to date has evaluated if specific types of current substance use are related to specific types of current psychiatric symptoms. The present study investigated these relationships with a sample of clients enrolled in a low-threshold MMT program . clients are not expelled if they continue to use substances . Some clients enrolled in low-threshold programs may never achieve complete abstinence from all substances. Thus understanding the possibly perpetuating relationships between concurrent substance use and psychiatric symptoms is important. Understanding such relationships may aid in developing possible target areas of treatment to reduce substance use and or related harms in this population. Methods Seventy-seven individuals were interviewed regarding methadone usage and current and past substance use. Current psychiatric symptoms were assessed using a modified version of the Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire PDSQ . Relationships between types of substances used in the past 30 days and the types and number of psychiatric symptoms experienced in the same timeframe were examined. Results The majority of participants reported using alcohol illicit substances non-prescribed prescription opioids or non-prescribed benzodiazepines in the past 30 days and of participants reported currently experiencing psychiatric symptoms at levels that would likely warrant diagnosis. Current nonprescribed benzodiazepine use was a .
