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How Chemical Dependency and Mental Illness Interact
Chemical dependency and mental illness often have a closer relationship than you'd think. Here's what happens when the two interact.
How alcohol affects a person living with mental illness
Stronger versions of illicit drugs, such as ice, are causing increased difficulty with patients suffering mental illness.
Why addiction and mental illness should be treated together
Historically, mental illness and addiction have typically been seen as separate, unrelated issues.
Addiction or Mental Illness: Which Should You Treat First?
Substance use can alter behaviors, moods, and personalities so severely for people with addiction that without specialized knowledge and experience, it’s difficult to determine underlying causes such as mental illness or trauma.
Expert: How to Deal with Addiction, Mental Illness During the Holidays
The holidays are a time of joy, but can also be a difficult time for people dealing with addiction or mental illness ...
Is addiction a mental illness?
Addiction is a brain disease, but it’s not typically treated as one. Why? What makes addiction different from a mental illness?
Which came first: Mental illness or addiction disease?
Substance abuse and mental health are terms that have become part of our daily lives. Whether it is a personal struggle, the impact of a loved
Myths and facts about addiction and mental illness
Addiction and mental illness are separate conditions, but they greatly influence each other. The relationship can be understood through an example: for a person with an inflammation due to a cut finger, the injury happened first and the inflammation was a result of the injury, but now they are linked. There has been a historical …
Why do drug use disorders often co-occur with other mental illnesses?
The high prevalence of comorbidity between drug use disorders and other mental illnesses does not mean that one caused the other, even if one appeared first. In fact, establishing causality or directionality is difficult for several reasons. Diagnosis of a mental disorder may not occur until symptoms have progressed to a specified level (per DSM); however, subclinical symptoms may also prompt drug use, and imperfect recollections…
Double Whammy: When Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Collide
Clinicians must recognize when mental illness and substance abuse occur together in order to offer more effective treatment.
Affordable treatment for mental illness and substance abuse gets harder to find
Patients are more likely to resort to out-of-network providers. Insurance firms also reimburse behavioral health providers at lower rates.
Meth Trip Or Mental Illness? Police Who Need To Know Often Can’t Tell
The calming techniques that officers learn during training to intervene in a mental health crisis don’t seem to work as well when a suspect is high on meth. Meth calls can be much more danger…
Chemical signals in the brain help guide risky decisions
A gambler's decision to stay or fold in a game of cards could be influenced by a chemical in the brain, suggests new research from the University of Britis ...
11 Amazing Ways Cannabis Can Prevent Illness
Most people are familiar with the healing potential of medical cannabis for people who are already ill. In states where its medicinal use has been legalized, cannabis is prescribed to help with things like relieving the side effects of chemo, reducing chronic pain, and treating anxiety.
How Marijuana Anonymous Helps Combat Cannabis Dependency
While researchers continue to explore “cannabis use disorder," Marijuana Anonymous attendees have made the personal choice to reexamine their relationship with the substance.
New Alcoholism Treatment To Eliminate Dependency, Could Be Cure?
A new compound can completely eliminate alcohol dependency in mice.
Are You Suffering from Love Addiction and Co-Dependency?
Love addiction has potential to negatively impact a person’s life but it can be tough to tell the difference whether a relationship is authentic or not. Read more.
Seven Warning Signs of Serious Alcohol Dependency
Binge or daily drinking increases your risks of developing alcohol dependency, the clinical term for alcoholism.
Genes May Determine Alcohol Dependency, Study Finds
Researchers have drawn a clearer picture illustrating the connection between alcoholism and genetic coding.
How smartphone addiction is affecting our physical and mental health
The only difference between smartphone addiction and any other is that it’s socially accepted. But that doesn’t mean it’s not detrimental.
