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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health. (2011) Psychosis with coexisting substance misuse: assessment and management in adults and young people. London: NICE. NICE clinical guideline 120.

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External website: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg120

This guideline offers best practice advice on the assessment and management of people with psychosis and coexisting substance misuse.

Psychosis is a condition that affects a person’s mental state, including their thoughts, mood and behaviour. The symptoms of psychosis are:
• hallucinations – hearing voices and sometimes seeing things that are not really there
• delusions – having fixed beliefs that are false but which the person believes in completely.

Substance misuse is a broad term encompassing, in this guideline, the harmful use of any psychotropic substance, including alcohol and either legal or illicit drugs. Use of such substances is harmful when it has a negative effect on a person’s life, including their physical and mental health, relationships, work, education and finances or leads to offending behaviour.


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