You must be wondering what a dual diagnosis treatment is and what exactly it entails. You see, you have to understand that a dual diagnosis treatment is one of the most important and at the same time, difficult therapies that a person can go through mainly because it is not only treating your substance abuse [...]

Dual diagnosis occurs when people who are suffering from drug or alcohol addiction show symptoms of emotional or psychiatric problems at the same time – hence the terms co-occurring disorders, co-morbidity, concurrent illnesses, and dual disorder that are also used to describe the condition. Studies show that 37 percent of alcoholics and 53 percent of [...]

Co-occurring disorders (COD) are substance abuse and mental disorders that occur simultaneously. In order to be considered as co-occurring disorders, both a substance abuse disorder and mental disorder must both be diagnosed and recognized as being independent from each other. A substance abuse disorder includes substance abuse, substance dependence and substance-induced disorders. Common substance abuse [...]