Enhancing Social Support Postincarceration: Results From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: Over 50% of released prisoners are reincarcerated within 3 years. Social support from loved ones postincarceration significantly reduces the likelihood of reincarceration. Increasingly, intervention developers aim to implement interventions that will enhance the stability of support available.

Neuroplasticity, psychosocial genomics, and the biopsychosocial paradigm in the 21st century.

The biopsychosocial perspective is a foundation of social work theory and practice. Recent research on neuroplasticity and psychosocial genomics lends compelling support to this perspective by elucidating mechanisms through which psychosocial forces shape neurobiology. Investigations of neuroplasticity demonstrate that the adult brain can continue to form novel neural connections and grow new neurons in response to learning or training even into old age.

Substance use disorders among inhalant users: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on alcohol and related conditions.

Objective: To assess the prevalence, correlates, and age of onset of DSM-IV substance use disorders (SUDs) among adult inhalant users.

Methods: Analyses were based on structured psychiatric interviews of a nationally representative sample of 43,093 US adults.

Results: The lifetime prevalence of SUDs among adult inhalant users was 96%.

Psychiatric disorders in inhalant users: results from The National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.

Objective: To examine the prevalence and correlates of mood, anxiety, and personality disorders among lifetime inhalant users.

Methods: Statistical analyses were based on data from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), a nationally representative survey of adults in the United States.

Results: Inhalant users (N=664) had high lifetime prevalences of DSM-IV mood (48%), anxiety (36%), and personality (45%) disorders.