Dual diagnosis of severe mental ilIness and substance disorder is a frequent and dificult challenge to the.mental health and substance abuse systems. This chapter reviews the dual diagnosis problem and introduces the chapters that follow.
Most integrated treatment programs originate in the mental health system; this chapter describes a dual diagnosis program that originates in the addiction system as a modfication ofa traditional therapeutic community.
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