Dual Diagnosis-vital to the healing process

Addiction and depression are often fundamentally interrelated diseases. Many depression victims turn to drugs as a means of escape; many drug addicts suffer from depression. It should probably go without saying, then, that drug recovery must always entail intensive depression treatment whenever it’s necessary. And that, in a nutshell, is why dual diagnosis techniques can be so vital to the healing process.

Dual diagnosis is a strategy by which drug treatment experts evaluate a patient’s substance dependency in conjunction with his or her mental health. That evaluation provides the foundation for a holistic drug treatment program, one that aims to heal a patient from the inside-out. For many drug addicts, successful dual diagnosis can mean the difference between the success and failure of the rehabilitation process. It’s hard to imagine that any consideration could ever be more important than that one.

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