title: [Substance use and victimization in violent assaults].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this work was to examine the role of substance use as factor which increase risk of assault.
  
  
  METHODS
  A review of the some of the most important international literature about drug-facilitated crimes is presented here.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The whole part of the papers shows a relationship between substance use and risk increase of assault, particularly in family violence and rape.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The effects of psychotropic substances use depend on the user's emotional state and on drugs use expectations. This prospective shows that we need to be cautious in interpreting processes of linear causality between abusive behaviour, processes of victimisation, abuses and abnormal sexual behaviours, which are related to the patient's desires, enhanced and validated by drugs.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici. Master in Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marvelli
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Grattagliano
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Aventaggiato
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gagliano-Candela
mesh_terms: D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*