The Dual Diagnosis Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Dual Diagnosis Treatment in Mental Health and Substance Use

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Introduction

Researchers have conducted a considerable number of studies before in an attempt to establish an understanding of dual diagnosis when a mental patient is affected both by psychological illness and the use of drugs and/or alcohol. This researchers have been conducted to help families with affected individuals or close friends find appropriate approaches to managing the mental disease and the abuse of the comorbid substance (Khantzian 1997). The two phenomena interact to worsen the diagnosis of each and develop serious implications on various capacities of mental, physical, and physiological functioning. Some of the affected functions in a victim of the circumstance include the ability to work, an individual’s health and safety, and the ability to have and maintain a serious relationship or relationships with other people…