Assessment and Management of People with Co-existing Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders

The Assessment and Management of People with Co-existing Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders

Date of publication: November 1998

Authors: Dr Fraser Todd, Dr Doug Sellman, Mr Paul Robertson
Publisher: National Centre For Treatment Development (Alcohol, Drugs & Addiction)
ISBN: 0-477-06342-X

Suggested Citation:
Todd FC, Sellman JD, Robertson PJ. The Assessment And Management Of People With Co-existing Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders. A commissioned paper for the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand, the Ministry of Health, New Zealand and the Mental Health Commission, November 1998.

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Background to the project

The co-existence of substance use and mental health disorders has received increasing attention in the international literature and increasing clinical focus in both alcohol and drug and mental health sectors over the past decade. The recognition that co-existing disorders are common, that use of traditional treatments is often associated with poor outcome, that patients with co-existing disorders generally experience severe dysfunction and that these patients sometimes bridge the "cracks" between services and sometimes fall through them, lies behind this increasing attention given to the issue of co-existing disorders.

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