DUAL DIAGNOSIS

Dual Diagnosis

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Dual Diagnosis

Introduction

Dual diagnosis is when any person is suffering from the emotional and psychiatric problem, along with the drug addiction. The word “Dual” tells that the diagnoses are of two problems simultaneously. It is essential for these patients to get cured for both problems simultaneously (Drake, 2000). There are few psychiatric problems which are common in patients with dual diagnosis. Problems such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, panic disorder, etc. are common problems which these people suffer from.

The concept of dual diagnosis to a population that is both mental illness and addiction is quite recent. This is probably one of the effects of the redesign concept in psychiatry, including editions of the DSM is a reflection, but it is mainly in response to a clinical impression. It is the concept that has found its relevance, past fifteen years; clinicians have encountered more and more often these particular patients, and were forced to see that it was difficult to treat within the existing programs.

Risk of dual diagnosis patients

The patients, who are suffering from the dual diagnosis problem, can cause certain problems which make the treatment difficult (Rosenthal, 2003). These risks are as follows:

Addiction is treatable if one treats the same time the associated psychiatric pathology.

Often withdrawal produced more problems than it solves.

The risk of suicidal acting out is more important than in non-psychotic drug.

They do not follow regular treatment; they are often hospitalized or quarantined unresolved monitoring or aftercare.

They are social and financial difficulties greater than their counter parts just psychotic.

The combination of medication and drug use produces cross effects.

They multiply and stakeholders are likely to exhaust them.

They are routinely excluded from usual care programs.

The cause of these phenomena remains unexplained so far, and several assumptions, sometimes contradictory, coexist in the literature: self-medication hypothesis, assume that illegal psychotropic crazy, a hypothesis that the emergence of dual diagnosis is a consequence of deinstitutionalization of psychotic common assumption of causality between psychosis and drug addiction has both psychosocial, biological and supported on the same family patterns. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of dual diagnosis continues to such an extent that it is no longer possible to regard it as marginal.

Drugs abused by dually diagnosed patients

The medical treatment prescribed to the person suffering from dual diagnoses may be difficult to follow. The pateints may become habitual in taking the drugs and become physically and psychologically dependent on them. This may cause hinderance ...