Among patients with mental illness is most prevalent addictions unlike those without these disorders, alerted Humberto Nicolini, scientist at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine.
50 percent of patients with mental illness, reported as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is addicted to snuff and alcohol as well as illegal substances. "It is very high compared to the figures described in the National Survey of Addictions for the general population," Nicolini said.
Among the general population, 20 percent are addicted to snuff, and 12 percent alcohol, he said. He said among the population with the most common mental disorders is addiction to nicotine.
"If the general population is a serious health problem in the population with psychiatric illness is very serious addiction problem. Subjects with schizophrenia smoke three times more than the general population. Nearly 70 percent of subjects with schizophrenia smoke, which leads to enormous health problems, "he added.
The expert lamented that many psychiatric hospitals lack a policy of free hospitals snuff because they think that patients are going to get worse, which is a serious problem.
"Many of the deaths there with schizophrenia is given to the large amount of cigarettes they smoke and this chronic condition, it leads to many cardiovascular damages and all secondary consequence to snuff.
"This has to be redefined and alert to mental health professionals and genomics pay more attention to this," the researcher at the Laboratory of Neuroscience and Addiction Disorders aforementioned institute. He explained that the alterations that cause mental illness above pave the way for a greater predisposition to addiction.
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