Substance abuse is a major problem in consultation liaison psychiatry, disproportionate to the degree of substance abuse in the community. Twenty to thirty percent of consultations in a general hospital have been reported to involve a substance abuse diagnosis, and this has been consistent over time (Bourgeois et al. 2005; Alaja et al. 1998).
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Streltzer, J. (2015). Substance related and addictive disorders. In Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Second Edition (pp. 279–290). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11005-9_20
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