Addiction and Mental Health Disorders- Rehab Chicago

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Dealing With Addiction Mental Health Disorders
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• Its very common for mental health disorders and
  addiction to occur together.This is called
  having a dual disorder.

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• Historically, experts in the field of addiction
  believed that alcohol dependence and substance
  abuse dependence were secondary conditions that
  resulted from untreated mental health disorders
  such as depression, PTSD and bi-polar disorder.

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• Mental health disorders and addiction are both
  chronic diseases of the brain and most people who
  develop them are usually genetically predisposed.

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• Today, studies have shown that it is unclear
  which condition precedes the other. Extensive
  research on the subject was done using data
  collected from The Collaborative Study on the
  Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA), The Study of
  Addiction, Genetics, and Environment (SAGE), The
  Yale-Penn genetic study of substance dependence,
  and The National Health and Resilience in
  Veterans Study (NHRVS). Findings showed that
  substance abuse disorders can cause depression
  and that depression increases the risk for
  substance abuse disorders.

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So Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?

• When it comes to treating dual disorders, it
  doesnt really matter which came first. In order
  for treatment to be effective, specialists must
  adequately address both disorders.

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• For years, doctors assumed that mental health
  disorders were at the root of the problem.
  Standard treatment focused solely on treating the
  depression, with the hopes that the alcohol abuse
  associated with it would eventually stop.

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• But as addiction treatment began to evolve in the
  late 60s, many enlightened medical professionals
  started to see the success their patients were
  having in 12-step recovery programs.

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• Their patients were getting better. The idea that
  addiction could be the primary disorder was a
  departure from mainstream thinking. And why is
  this important?

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• Because up until now, many clinicians have been
  trained to treat either the substance abuse or
  the mental health disorder, but seldom both. In
  many of these cases, the chance of relapse was
  very high.

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• Treating a dual disorder requires specialized
  knowledge from clinicians who understand the
  complexities of addiction and mental health
  disorders.

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• Its imperative that addiction treatment centers
  are equipped to treat dual disorders, with a
  fully integrated program that handles all of a
  patients needs. With this level of specialized
  care, individuals suffering from dual disorders
  can live happy, healthy and productive lives.

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