Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Users with Severe Mental Illness

Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 1

January - March 1999

Editors’ Introduction: Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Users with Severe Mental Illness — Joan E. Zweben, Ph.D. & Richard K. Ries, M.D.

Innovations in Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment in Public Managed Care: The Choate Dual Diagnosis Case Rate Program —  Kenneth Minkoff, M.D. & Julie Regner, B.A.

Assertive Community Treatment for Patients with Chronic and Severe Mental Illness Who Abuse Drugs — Dane Wingerson, M.D. & Richard K. Ries, M.D.

Treatment for MICAs: Design and Implementation of the Modified TC — Stanley Sacks, Ph.D.; JoAnn Y. Sacks, Ph.D. & George De Leon, Ph.D.

Level of Burden Among Women Diagnosed with Severe Mental Illness and Substance Abuse — Vivian B. Brown, Ph.D.; Lisa A. Melchior, Ph.D. & G.J. Huba, Ph.D.

The Addiction Treatment Unit: A Dual Diagnosis Program at the California Medical Facility—A Descriptive Report —  Randall I. Katz, Ph.D.

A Dual Diagnosis Typology to Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Dual Disorder Patients — Sheldon Zimberg, M.D.

Awareness of Substance Abuse Problems Among Dually-Diagnosed Psychiatric Inpatients — Jill RachBeisel, M.D.; Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H. & Jean Gearon, Ph.D.

Psychotropic Medication Management in Persons with Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders — Wesley Sowers, M.D. & Scott Golden, M.D.

Dissociative Identity Disorder and Substance Abuse: The Forgotten Relationship — David M. McDowell, M.D.; Frances R. Levin, M.D. & Edward V. Nunes, M.D.

Treatment Outcome of an Outpatient Treatment Program for Dually-Diagnosed Veterans: The Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center — Rachelle Sekerka, Ph.D.; R. Jeffrey Goldsmith, M.D.;         Linda Brandewie, M.S.N., R.N. & Eugene Somoza, M.D., Ph.D.

COVER ART — Pebble Beach by Jonathan Eubanks