Link Between Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
by Max Menius

Treatment professionals have long recognized a causal link between active substance abuse and the exacerbation of mental health symptoms. Similarly, those treating addiction have observed a patient’s drug use and associated problems suddenly escalate when the patient goes off of a needed psychotropic medication. That these two illnesses are connected is no great surprise. The
- Published in Drug Addiction, Mental Illness, Treatment and Recovery


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