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Re:So Close by DanBC on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:55AM (#16050758)
Drug and alcohol.dependency are the things you need to worry about, not mental illness.

http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centrefor...

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> xx. In all four UK countries, most patients convicted of homicide also have a history of alcohol or drug misuse, between 88% in England and 100% in N Ireland. In other words it is unusual for mental health patients to commit homicide unless there is a coexisting problem of substance misuse.

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Re:So Close by anonfunction on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:26PM (#16056892)
There is a strong correlation between mental illness and substance abuse.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/como...

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Re:So Close by DanBC on Friday January 05, 2018 @03:34PM (#16081428)
But it's the drug and alcohol misuse which predicts violence, not the mental illness.
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Re:So Close by anonfunction on Friday January 05, 2018 @05:10PM (#16082189)
I don't think it is so clear cut, there are certainly violent mentally ill people who don't use substances. Alternatively there are addicts who are very kind.
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