Mental and substance use disorders among legal intervention injury cases in California, 2005-2014.

ABSTRACT: Police use of force is an important public health issue in the US. Recent high-profile incidents suggest a potential link between mental disorders and police use of force, however little research has examined their co-occurrence in the general population. We aimed to assess the overall association between specific mental and substance use disorders (MSUDs) and nonfatal legal intervention injury. We identified nonfatal legal intervention injury cases (n = 90,099) and MSUD diagnoses from all hospital and emergency department (ED) records in California between 2005 and 2014. Age-, sex-, and race-standardized MSUD prevalence estimates among legal intervention injury cases, stratified by inpatient status, were compared to general US population-based estimates from the National Comorbidity Surve

SUBMITTER: Farkas K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6410732 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature