HSCI 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Mental Disorder, Reinforcement
16 Mar 2019
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Major depression occurs in 10-25% of woman, nearly twice as much as men. Co-relation between substance use disorder and psychiatric illness. Concurrent disorder: specific to the presence of mental illness with substance use. Comes from camh (center for addiction and mental health) largest addiction and teaching hospital. 70% of mental health illness appear before the age of 25. Rates of concurrent disorders are significantly higher among adolescents. Drug and alcohol abuse disorders are linked to high rates of treatments nonadherence and to lower rates if recover. People with concurrent disorder fall through the crack and face homelessness. Tend to be chromic relapsing illnesses such as mental disorder like substance abuse disorder. People with mental health problems have a risk of substance abuse is two to four times as high as general public. Two proped models of increased substance abuse amoung individuals. Before 19th century mental illness was poorly understood which involved religion, magical, spiritual or biophysical explanations.
