Improving Psychotic Symptoms to Addicted Patients: the Antipsychotics Medication Helped Finding the Primary Diagnose

Does mental illness cause drug problems; it can be hard to tell which problem came first –the drugs or the mental illness. Having a mental illness can make a person more likely to abuse the drugs, make their symptoms feel better in the short term. Although there is a fewer study on comorbidity among youth, researcher suggests that adolescent with substance use disorders also have high rates of cooccurring mental illness; over 60 percent of adolescents in community –based substance use disorder treatment programs also meet diagnostic criteria for another mental illness. Data show high rates of comorbid substance using disorder and anxiety disorders, panic disorder, and post-traumatic disorder. The data show up the high rates also with affective disorder especially bipolar and psychotic disorder