Dual Diagnosis Enhanced Programs Form

Instructions and help about Dual Diagnosis Enhanced Programs

i am martha kane i'm the clinical director for the center for addiction medicine clinical director for the substance use disorders initiative and the clinical director for outpatient psychiatry at mass general hospital [Music] this turns out to be one of the most complex difficult situations that we face in the mental health or substance use world and in fact really in medicine altogether this this interaction between mental health disorder and substance use disorder it is unfortunately extremely common it's more common than not someone with a substance use disorder i'm going to talk to you a little bit about percentages but they are extremely high for comorbid mental health disorder and the reverse is true to a slightly lesser degree what we do know is if you've got both the course is more chronic the outcomes are worse or more complicated and that the symptoms of the two disorders interact in a negative way to create much more difficulties so when someone suffers from both a mental h