Dual Diagnosis
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Dual Diagnosis refers to the additional morbidity of a person where he suffers from additional disorders when an illness is already present. A person is said to be suffering from dual diagnosis if he is mentally ill and also suffers from a substance abuse problem. It is never easy to cope with drug addiction or dealing with alcoholism and the problem increases if the person is suffering from a mental illness.
Treatment must immediately be provided by taking the person to the dual diagnosis drug rehab. Many different ways of treatment medically and behaviorally are provided in order to treat the person. It is very difficult to treat such co-occurring disorders since both have their own unique symptoms and one definitely affects the other. Therefore extreme care and precaution must be taken when treating such dual diagnosis drug affected patients in the rehab. Drug addiction is common even to the people with mental illness. Dual diagnosis drug rehab provides integrated and combined treatment to cure both the disorders simultaneously.
The signs and symptoms are closely observed and treatment is given accordingly. The person should question himself if he was ever let back by any drug use or after consuming an overdose of any medicine. The dual diagnosis drug rehab must also notice the symptoms that affect the mental illness of a person after getting addicted to a particular drug. The loss of interest in the daily life, loss of energy, mood disturbances, strong feelings of being guilty, changes in appetite and weight etc are few of the signs a person affected with a substance abuse shows.
The rehab provides proper guidance and counseling apart from prescribing the right medicines that cure the mental illness. Guidance and counseling is needed to make the person slowly cut away his addiction on a particular substance. This should also be done very carefully since a sudden withdrawal from the drug may pose many other health-risk factors. Medicinal treatment checks the mental illness and the doctors in the dual diagnosis drug rehab centers simultaneously observe the improving conditions of both the disorders.
Treatment is also provided based on the person’s family history, his lifestyle and other habits. The dual diagnosis drug rehab centers analyze and review the treatment history to get an idea if the patient has been treated with any other disorder or illness ever before.
Therefore, on strictly following the principles and taking the appropriate precautions it is possible to successfully treat a person with substance or drug abuse disorders as well as co-existing mental health illness.
