HEC/News: Mental illness alone is no trigger for violence (Pasadena Star-News)

HEC/News
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Mental illness alone is no trigger for violence
Pasadena Star-News (CA) February 3, 2009
By Carla K. Johnson

"A new large U.S. study challenges the idea that mental illness alone is
a leading cause of violence."

"Researchers instead blame a combination of factors, specifically
substance abuse and a history of violent acts, that drives up the danger
when combined with mental illness in what they call an 'intricate
link...'"

"But when mental illness was combined with a history of violence and a
history of substance abuse, as in about 1,600 people, the risk of future
violence increased by a factor of 10..."

Full article available at http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_11618359

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