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Alcoholism
Study shows many mental health needs go unmet
April 10th, 2007
Psychiatrists’ first large-scale assessment of the general population shows nearly 30 percent need mental health care and about one-third of them get it. The study focused on Baltimore, where a team of psychiatrists interviewed 816 people between 1993 and 1999. They found the greatest need was treatment of alcohol dependence, nearly 14 percent, and major depression, nearly 11 percent. "There are a lot of people who need psychiatric care who aren’t getting any," says Dr. Erick Messias, psychiatrist at the Medical College of Georgia and lead author on the study in the March issue of Psychiatric Services. "There is a constellation of...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2007-04-10)
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