Substance use disorders and psychiatric co-morbidity in the public healthcare services of Veneto Region. State of art and epidemiological data

Autor: Felice Alfonso Nava, Giulia Bassetti, Maria Bianco, Mauro Filippi, Stefano Kusstatscher, Giuseppe Imperadore, Marcello Mazzo, Marco Nuti, Diego Saccon, Francesco Sanavio, Claudio Pilerci, Tommaso Maniscalco
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: MISSION. :8-11
ISSN: 2037-4798
Popis: Italy has two different public healthcare services taking in care patients with dual diagnosis: (1) the mental health services (Centri di Salute Mentale - CSM) and (2) and the drug abuse services (Servizi per le Dipendenze - Ser.D.). We collected and analyzed data regarding the frequency of the co-morbidities in Veneto Region during 2019. Our study shows that only the 1% of the patients in treatment in the mental health services and the 8.7% of those in drug abuse services are recognized as dual diagnosed subjects. In drug abuse services the most frequent substance use disorders (SUD) correlated with a psychiatric disease were the alcohol and opioids use disorders, while the most prevalent psychiatric disorders associated with a SUD were the personality disorders and the schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders. Our data indicate that the diagnosis of co-morbidity should be improved in both services and that integrated programs between the above services should be developed to improve the best practices.
Databáze: OpenAIRE