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A 5 page paper that begins with a brief definition of 'substance abuse' and 'dual diagnosis.' The incidence of dual diagnosis is reported as are the challenges this type of diagnosis presents to the clinician and the patient. The writer reports a study with bipolar disorder using a new type of group intervention that was successful with substance abuse but not with the disorder. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the Work Group on Quality Issues, 2005, p. 609). Symptoms of abuse include things like "withdrawal, tolerance, and loss of control over use" (Bukstein and the Work Group on Quality
Issues, 2005, p. 609). Substance abuse and dependency on the substance itself results in "significant levels of acute change in mood, cognition, and behavior" (Bukstein and the Work Group on
Quality Issues, 2005, p. 609). Mood changes range from depression to euphoria, behavior changes could include loss of inhibitions, agitation, lethargy, somnolence or hypervigilence and cognitive changes may include an
inability to concentrate, decreased attention span, and disturbances in thinking (Bukstein and the Work Group on Quality Issues, 2005). Substance abusers of all ages often have a dual or multiple
diagnosis (Bukstein and the Work Group on Quality Issues, 2005). A dual (or multiple) diagnosis means the individual has two or more diagnosable psychiatric disorders occurring simultaneously. In fact, some
authors estimate as many as "70 percent of individuals with drug and alcohol addictions may suffer from dual diagnosis, with undiagnosed and untreated secondary diagnoses" (Transitions Recovery Program(r), 2007). Further,
there is general agreement that about half of mental illness patients also have a substance abuse problem (Transitions Recovery Program(r), 2007). One of the reasons for this is that patients
with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate the symptoms of the mental illness and
those of substance abuse (Transitions Recovery Program(r), 2007). Rosack (2003) reported that presentation after presentation at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry discussed dual-diagnosis -
substance abuse with another Axis 1 disorder. These were all practitioners and the dual diagnosis held the emphasis whether the patient base was adults or adolescents (Rosack, 2003). About the
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