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