This condition is often compared to a vicious circle, from which it is simply impossible to get out on one’s own. It seems that with a willful decision one can cope with any addiction, but then mental abnormalities manifest themselves, accompanied by an irresistible craving for psychoactive substances. Is rehabilitation possible with dual diagnosis?
These illnesses can and should be treated. The earlier one seeks help from dual diagnosis rehab centers, the faster and easier the recovery will be. New Breath Recovery has all the conditions for this: a team of experienced specialists, comfortable rooms, constant monitoring of patients’ condition, effective rehabilitation programs.
What Is Dual Diagnosis?
It is common to see situations where an addict to alcohol, drugs or stimulants develops one or more mental health problems. Or vice versa. Due to mental disorders, the patient starts taking some psychoactive substances, becoming addicted. One becomes the cause for the development of the other, intensifying symptoms and complicating treatment. This is a dual diagnosis.
The Connection Between Mental Health and Addiction
In psychiatry, any addiction is itself a mental illness. The craving for substances is an attempt to escape from reality, to change consciousness. A short period of sobriety is enough for pathological changes in emotional reactions to manifest themselves: anxiety, depression, insomnia, memory impairment, social distancing, and much more. It turns out that there is a direct connection between any addiction and mental health.
Benefits of Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Dual diagnosis drug treatment has several advantages over treating a single disease:
- promotes improvement in the patient’s overall condition;
- effectively addresses the symptoms of existing conditions;
- addresses the cause, not just the effect;
- reduces the likelihood of future recurrences;
- builds healthy habits for long-term recovery.
All of this results in a stable rehabilitation with predictable positive dynamics.
How Dual Diagnosis Treatment Works at New Breath Recovery
The basic approach to residential dual diagnosis treatment at New Breath Recovery is to develop individualized programs based on those that have shown maximum effectiveness. We recognize that our patients have to put more effort into their treatment when they have comorbidities. And we make sure those efforts are channeled in the right direction to maximize results.
Dual diagnosis rehabilitation at New Breath Recovery includes:
- a comprehensive assessment of the patient’s condition;
- detox as an effective way to begin addiction treatment;
- supervised medication management;
- individualized therapy;
- creation of comfortable conditions for the consolidation of the obtained result.
Specialists of different profiles work in our clinic. Their close cooperation allows us to minimize the risks of relapse.
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Integrated Therapy Approaches for Dual Diagnosis
The integrated approach to rehabilitation in a dual diagnosis inpatient treatment center means the simultaneous use of several forms of therapy, the use of special medication and social support. It is the only effective approach because it aims to cure all diseases at once. Concentration of efforts on any one of them invariably leads to relapse.
The main requirements for an integrated approach:
- participation of a multidisciplinary team of medical staff;
- absence of contradictions between therapies;
- taking into account the nature of the interaction of prescribed drugs;
- individualized approach.
Frequently Asked Questions About Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Are you or your loved one in a difficult situation and looking for comprehensive information about the treatment of dual diagnosis? Our experts have prepared for you detailed answers to the most popular questions on this topic.
What conditions are treated in dual diagnosis?
When treating dual diagnosis, treatment facilities simultaneously focus on disorders from the following two groups:
- substance dependence: alcohol, drugs or stimulants;
- mental disorders: depression, schizophrenia, bipolar or anxiety disorders.
Treatment is comprehensive and involves a close relationship between the addiction and the psychiatric disorder. The focus is on the group that caused the development of the other illness – the root cause of the dual diagnosis.
How does dual diagnosis treatment differ from standard addiction treatment?
It is more complex, as it is aimed at combating several diseases at once, the combination of which is always unique due to the age of the patient and the severity of individual diseases. Therefore, it requires the involvement of specialists from different fields of medicine: narcologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and social workers.
Can dual diagnosis treatment be done on an outpatient basis?
This is possible if the preliminary examination shows that the symptoms are moderate and there is strong family and social support. In most cases, doctors recommend inpatient treatment – this way the risks of relapse can be minimized.
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