Faculty Bibliography

The authors conducted a survey of psychiatric education in alcoholism and drug abuse in the United States. Ninety-seven percent of 106 undergraduate training programs and 91% of 169 residency programs offered curriculum units in this field. Most of these programs also provided supervised clinical care. Areas of reported faculty dissatisfaction included problems with attitude and interest of psychiatric faculty and with the amount of curriculum time allotted. The authors conclude that although the amount of curriculum time devoted to training in alcoholism and drug abuse is growing, further investment in developing faculty and fellowships is warranted to increase the quality of teaching commitment

Thirty-two dually diagnosed inpatients described drug-induced changes in their psychiatric symptoms. All heroin addicts and most alcoholics reported drug-induced improvement of their primary psychiatric symptoms; all cocaine addicts reported symptom worsening. These findings suggest that chronic cocaine abuse may not necessarily be related to attempts at self-medication of psychiatric symptoms