Dual Diagnosis: Mental Health and Addiction

Dual Diagnosis: Mental Health and Addiction

A dual diagnosis, also called co-occurring disorders, COD, or dual pathology, means that the same patient suffers from addiction to some drug, legal or illegal, or behaviour, and at the same time suffers from another psychiatric disorder.  The fact that in the same...

What is co-dependency?

What is co-dependency? Though not as common a term as depression or anxiety, co-dependency is a far more common problem than you might think. When we aim to treat addictions to drugs, alcohol or other substances we have to look at the emotional background that very...
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