Psychiatric Services
- Volume 48
- Number 6
- June 1997
Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages789–791Receipt of public support payments by people with substance abuse disorders has been a subject of intense controversy in recent years. Observing that such funds are often used to purchase addictive substances, many critics have questioned whether people ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.789Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages792–795OBJECTIVE: A suspicion that disability payments may exacerbate substance use among persons with chemical addictions recently led Congress to limit federal disability entitlements of applicants whose disability status is related to substance abuse, even if ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.792Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages796–799OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether substance abusers who received large retroactive payments from Social Security disability programs were more likely to terminate residential treatment precipitously than those who did not receive payments. METHODS: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.796Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages800–806OBJECTIVE: Assignment of representative payees, third parties responsible for managing clients' funds, has been proposed to counter potential use of public support payments for abused substances by people with severe mental illness and substance use ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.800Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages807–810OBJECTIVE: The study investigated whether contingency management could reduce cocaine use by patients with schizophrenia. METHODS: An A-B-A research design, with two-month baseline, intervention, and follow-up phases, was used to study two homeless, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.807Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages811–814OBJECTIVE: A survey was conducted to evaluate the representative payee practices of community mental health centers (CMHCs) in Washington State, with emphasis on whether and how benefit disbursement practices were linked to patients' clinical behaviors, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.811Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages815–820OBJECTIVE: The study evaluated the utility to clinicians and the acceptability to patients of the self-administered computerized version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI-Auto) in an acute psychiatric setting. METHODS: Patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.815Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages821–825OBJECTIVE: A health maintenance organization (HMO) examined whether continuous quality improvement could be used to address the problem of long waiting times for outpatient mental health services from a closed panel of providers during peak periods of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.821Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages826–832OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the effects of gender, number of lifetime psychiatric diagnoses, and childhood victimization on utilization of mental health and substance abuse treatment services in a Southwestern American Indian tribe. METHODS: A ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.826Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages833–835In a study of the prevalence of tuberculosis infection and risk factors for infection among people with severe mental illness, 71 participants in a psychiatric day program were given a tuberculin skin test. Twelve of the 71 subjects (17 percent) had ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.833Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages835–837Some patients being treated for recurrent major depression experience a return of depressive symptoms despite a constant maintenance dose of an antidepressant, a phenomenon known as breakthrough depression. A total of 145 psychiatrists who were members of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.835Collaboration between the Air Force, VA, and a university psychiatry department on an inpatient unit
Publication date: 01 June 1997
Pages838–839The David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base in California is the site of a collaboration between the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the School of Medicine of the University of California, Davis, which was begun in 1994 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.6.838Article
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