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This 12 page paper provides an overview of the issue in public health of dual diagnoses. This paper considers the breadth of the issue, that includes treatment issues for people with alcohol/drug dependency and mental health diagnoses. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Introduction It is not uncommon for
substance abuse and mental illness to occur in tandem. Studies of dual diagnosis of substance abuse and depression, drug abuse and schizophrenia, alcoholism and anxiety disorders, and many other
dual diagnoses have been conducted for decades, and reflect an emerging correlation between mental illness and substance abuse. Because of the problematic nature of mental illness and treatment models,
concern over dual diagnoses have become a central part of health policy development and health care service delivery plans. In assessing the impacts of dual diagnoses for health
policy and services, it is necessary to understand the fundamental perspectives on dual diagnoses, correlated theoretical and thematic perspectives, and the integration of data that has been used to direct
public health policies in the recent past. The link, then, between this public health perspective and the development of health policies and health services can be understood within the
context of the problem of addressing dual-diagnosed populations. The Dual Diagnosis The term dual diagnosis is a relatively new term that
originated in the United States and has come to define a growing population of individuals who are afflicted with both a chemical dependency as well as a mental illness (What
is Dual Diagnosis? 2004). It originated in response to the growing number of patients who experience the co-occurrence of mental and chemical dependency disorders and thus this term
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