arrest records) [37]. Patients were excluded if they were hospitalized for longer than 145 days or if they had been under commitment for more than 21 days [38]; the median length of hospitalization was 9 days for those who met inclusion criteria [38]. We selected the 801 patients from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study sample with a psychiatric diagnosis within one of the following major categories of SMI: depressive, schizophrenia-spectrum, or bipolar disorders. These 801 patients comprised our sample, and we examined associations between substance use and recovery outcomes for patients with different SMIs during the 1-year post-hospitalization period.
