Preinjury alcohol and drug use among persons with spinal cord injury: implications for rehabilitation.

Context/objective: To describe preinjury alcohol and drug use and opportunities for secondary prevention among persons with recent spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Survey.

Setting: Acute inpatient rehabilitation program.

Do preinjury alcohol problems predict poorer rehabilitation progress in persons with spinal cord injury?

Objective: To determine whether a history of alcohol-related problems is associated with inpatient rehabilitation progress.

Design: Cross-sectional cohort survey.

Setting: Acute inpatient rehabilitation program in a level I trauma center.

A typology of alcohol use patterns among persons with recent traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury: implications for treatment matching.

Objective: To describe empirically valid and clinically meaningful types of alcohol use among persons with recent traumatic brain or spinal cord injury.

Design: Cross-sectional cohort survey.

Setting: Acute inpatient rehabilitation program in a level I trauma center.

The magnitude and correlates of alcohol and drug use before traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To describe preinjury alcohol and drug use and opportunities for secondary prevention among persons with recent traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Design: Survey.

Setting: Acute inpatient rehabilitation program.