title: Drug use, mental health and problems related to crime and violence: cross-sectional study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the correlation between disorders related to the use of alcohol and other drugs and symptoms of mental disorders, problems related to crime and violence and to age and gender.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional descriptive study carried out with 128 users of a Psychosocial Care Center for Alcohol and other Drugs, in the city of São Paulo, interviewed by means of the instrument entitled Global Appraisal of Individual Needs - Short Screener. Univariate and multiple linear regression models were used to verify the correlation between the variables.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using univariate regression models, internalizing and externalizing symptoms and problems related to crime/violence proved significant and were included in the multiple model, in which only the internalizing symptoms and problems related to crime and violence remained significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a correlation between the severity of problems related to alcohol use and severity of mental health symptoms and crime and violence in the study sample. The results emphasize the need for an interdisciplinary and intersectional character of attention to users of alcohol and other drugs, since they live in a socially vulnerable environment.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Heloísa Garcia
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Claro
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Márcia Aparecida Ferreira
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Lighthouse Institute, Bloomington, IL, United States.
authors.forename: Janet Titus
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Bourdreaux
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ivan Filipe de Almeida Lopes
authors.initials: IF
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Paula Hayasi
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Pinho
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rosana Ribeiro
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Tarifa
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001938:Brazil; D003415:Crime; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence