| People have heard of people that have a mental | | | | · Will help the patient to see how drugs and/or |
| illness and people have heard of people who are | | | | alcohol act in their life. This should be achieved under |
| addicted to drugs. The question that is posed here is | | | | a confidential discussion with out the fear of getting |
| whether people have heard of addicts that also have | | | | into trouble. |
| mental illnesses. This is actually a very common | | | | · Will help the patient to see how drugs and |
| occurrence and there are dual diagnosis drug rehab | | | | mental illnesses affect each other. |
| centers to accommodate these groups of addicts. | | | | · May provide the patient with opportunities to |
| This form of drug rehab that focuses on the | | | | work, a job that will help the rehab process. |
| addiction and the mental illness combined as one form | | | | · Will help the patient to make and achieve |
| of therapy with the end goal that can help the addict | | | | personal goals. |
| to live a clean and drug-free life. | | | | · Will provide information pertaining to the |
| Some rehab centers will treat the mental cause itself | | | | patients mental illness or illnesses and how to cope |
| that may have led to the drug addiction; this could be | | | | with them. Also will help the patient to live as normal |
| a traumatic childhood, or addicted parents, but this | | | | a life as possible with their dual diagnosis. |
| does not mean that the center has made a clinical | | | | · Give the patient the tools to recover from |
| diagnosis that the individual addict has a mental | | | | addiction and live with a mental disorder. |
| disorder, such as depression or bipolar disorder. There | | | | · Teach the patient social, communication, and |
| is a difference in something that has led to a drug | | | | personal skills |
| addiction and in something that is caused by the drug | | | | · If medication is needed for the mental |
| addiction. Mental illnesses may not even be apparent | | | | disorder, teach him about the medicine and what |
| until the drug rehab is happening or the mental illness | | | | affects that it will have on them. |
| can cause the drug addiction but the affects of the | | | | · May involve the family so that they can also |
| drugs can be worse because of the illness. | | | | learn about the duel diagnosis. |
| It is a very complicated program, diagnosing and | | | | The list above is just a few of the things a person |
| treating a dual diagnosis, but, recovery from drug | | | | with a dual diagnosis will learn about and go through |
| addiction and control of the mental illness is possible | | | | during their drug rehab. It is important for the patient |
| through a dual diagnosis rehab program. This type of | | | | to understand about drug addiction and mental |
| drug rehab helps an addict with a mental illness. A | | | | disorders if there is ever any hope of rehabilitation. |
| dual diagnosis will do the following for an addict with | | | | The most important thing to remember is that the |
| a mental illness: | | | | people who have addictions and mental illnesses. |