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Cultural Clashes in Co-Occurring Disorders:<br />

David Mee-Lee, M.D.<br />

Clinical Dilemmas in Assessment and Treatment<br />

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3. Care versus Confrontation<br />

• mental health - care, support, understanding, passivity<br />

• addiction - accountability, behavior change<br />

4. Abstinence-oriented versus Abstinence-mandated<br />

• treatment as a process, not an event<br />

• respective roles in both approaches<br />

5. Deinstitutionalization versus Recovery and Rehabilitation<br />

C. Dilemmas in Definition, Diagnosis and Disposition<br />

• Definition - diagnosis or diagnoses; “multiproblem”<br />

- any client who presents with significant alcohol and/or other drug use and active psychiatric Sxs<br />

• Diagnosis - substance use disorder or psychiatric diagnosis or both?; primary or secondary disorder,<br />

or doesn’t it matter?<br />

• Disposition - where to treat? - addiction treatment settings; mental health settings; or special dual<br />

diagnosis services; use treatment-priority to determine placement<br />

- how to treat? - medications; motivation; meetings<br />

D. Why Diagnostic Confusion? - Diagnostic Confusion due to:<br />

• Alcohol/drugs can cause psychiatric symptoms in anyone (acute toxicity)<br />

• Prolonged alcohol/drug use can cause short or long-term psychiatric illness<br />

• Alcohol/drug use can escalate in episodes of psychiatric illness<br />

• Psychiatric symptoms and alcohol/drug use can occur in other psychiatric disorders<br />

• Independent addiction and psychiatric illnesses (“Dual Diagnosis”)<br />

(Marc A. Schuckit: Am. J. Psychiatry, 143:2 p. 141 - modified)<br />

E. Why Lack of Consensus?<br />

• Lack of consistency in research findings; research methodologies; prevalence rates<br />

• Different training and experience<br />

• Different patient populations<br />

• Different research methodologies<br />

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