Co-occurring substance use and mental disorders in the criminal justice system: a new frontier of clinical practice and research.

Psychiatr Rehabil J

Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University Chicago.

Published: March 2015

This editorial introduces this special section of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, which focuses on justice-involved persons with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders (CODs). It contains seven original articles examining CODs among justice-involved populations that vary by gender, age, setting (e.g., community/ court, jail, prison), environment (urban, rural), geographic region, and nationality. (PsycINFO Database Record

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