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  • Chapter 1 - Psychiatric Intensive Care: Development and Definition

  • Edited by Roland Dix, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester, Stephen Dye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, Ipswich, Stephen M. Pereira, Keats House, London
  • Book:
    Psychiatric Intensive Care
    Published online:
    15 March 2024
    Print publication:
    28 March 2024, pp 1-18
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    This chapter outlines the historical development of psychiatric intensive care as a specialty. It presents an overview of the current facilities and patients based on the most recent UK National Surveys and current admission criteria taken from national guidelines. Further, it discusses how psychiatric intensive care interfaces with general adult services, mental health secure estates, the criminal justice system and community mental health services. Finally, the chapter presents an outline of the future strategy for the development of the specialty.

  • Cannabis and mental health

  • M Dominic Beer
  • Journal:
    Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care / Volume 3 / Issue 1 / June 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 September 2007, pp. 45-47
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    June 2007
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  • This article provides review evidence that cannabis use potentially leads to psychosis in vulnerable people, especially if started in adolescence. Possible modes of action and biochemical mechanisms are suggested. The dangers of cannabis, especially for PICU/LSU patients, are discussed and ways forward in PICU/LSU care are suggested.