Welcome to Recovery-World Dual-Diagnosis!
Please feel to share your recovery,
experiences, problems and hope to other members in our group. Utilize
all our resources: online meetings, chat rooms, email meetings and forums.
Dual
diagnosis is when one has a mental disorder and a substance
abuse disorder at the same time. Comorbid disorders (two disorders present
in association with one another) are already difficult to treat as it is, but
when one of the disorders relates to substance abuse, you have an entirely different
spectrum of issues to deal with. Special issues associated with dual diagnosis
have not received nearly enough attention over the years; instead it is a
problem that has remained on the back burner of disorders that need to be studied
more thoroughly. We can hope and advocate for more research and resource funding
devoted to dual diagnosis in the future, given the significant scope of the
problem among people with mental illness and the current lack of good treatment
options.
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