Psychiatric and substance abuse disorders among male urban jail detainees.
This paper presents prevalence rates by race/ethnicity and age for nine psychiatric and substance use disorders found in a random sample of 728 male jail detainees. Two thirds of the sample detainees had had a disorder other than antisocial personality during their lifetimes; half of these had had an episode within 2 weeks of the interview. More than 30% currently had either a severe mental disorder or a substance use disorder. Detainees with severe mental disorders or substance use disorders were most often in jail because they had committed nonviolent crimes. Policy implications of the results are discussed.
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D002641:Chicago / Q000453:epidemiology; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D015995:Prevalence; D011329:Prisoners; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D014504:Urban Health; D044465:White People