Dual diagnosis treatment center for addiction

What is a Dual Diagnosis Treatment Center? An Informative Guide

ByJake Gorman

A dual diagnosis treatment center is an important component of effective addiction and mental health care. More than one in four individuals with substance use disorders also have mental health issues. This is because certain substances can cause mental health issues as addiction develops or people with mental health issues self-medicate or cope with the…

Accept addiction as a mental illness

Understanding that Addiction is a Mental Illness

ByJake Gorman

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) states that drug addiction is a mental illness because addiction alters the brain in fundamental ways, disrupting a person’s normal hierarchy of needs and desires, and substituting new priorities associated with obtaining and consuming drugs. Compulsive actions that override the ability to control impulses despite consequences are characteristic…