S19-4ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS AND CO-OCCURRING PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: CLINICAL ISSUES AND STRATEGIES

Referral Strategies for Patients With Co-Occurring Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimates that 42% of 18.9 million adults with a substance use disorder (SUD) in 2011 had a co-occurring disorder. Of these 8 million adults, 56.6% received no care, 32.5% received mental health care, 6.9% received care for both an SUD and mental health, and 4% received care for an SUD ...

Treatment of co-occurring psychotic and substance use disorders.

People with psychotic disorders and other serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe major depression, have high rates of co-occurring substance use disorder, which can wreak havoc in their lives. In this article the authors describe strategies for assessing substance use problems in people with serious mental illnesses, and then address the treatment of these...

Treatment of Co-Occurring Alcohol and Other Drug Use Disorders

Drug use disorders (DUDs) frequently co-occur with alcohol use disorders, affecting approximately 1.1 percent of the U.S. population. Compared with alcohol use disorders or DUDs alone, co-occurring disorders are associated with a greater severity of substance dependence; co-occurring psychiatric disorders also are common in this patient population. Many effective medications and behavioral trea...

The Epidemiology of Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders

Differences in trauma history and psychopathology between PTSD patients with and without co-occurring dissociative disorders

BACKGROUND The interplay between different types of potentially traumatizing events, posttraumatic symptoms, and the pathogenesis of PTSD or major dissociative disorders (DD) has been extensively studied during the last decade. However, the phenomenology and nosological classification of posttraumatic disorders is currently under debate. The current study was conducted to investigate difference...