© 2005 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
REVIEW
Substance misuse in the older population
1 Springfield Unit, City General Hospital, Stoke on Trent, UK
2 Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Keele, UK
3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Keele
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr A McGrath
Springfield Unit, City General Hospital, Stoke on Trent ST4 6QG, UK; adrianmcgrath{at}aol.com
Substance misuse among the older population is largely overlooked and underreported. Many factors contribute to this, not least the fact that presentation may be atypical and hence easily missed by the medical practitioner. There may be many clues to its existence, provided the physician remains alert to these. Despite this it is quite comforting to know that once identified, the evidence to date suggests that older people may respond at least as well as younger people to treatment.
Keywords: substance misuse; elderly population
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
