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Drug and mental illness  - Around 20 percent of the population is suffering from some sort of mental illness and about half of them have a co-occurring substance use disorder ...

The toxic link between drug abuse and mental illness - But, sadly, the mental illness and drug addiction at the root of Blevin's troubled life are all too common. They probably already affect someone you love ...

The link between drug abuse and mental illness  - Undiagnosed mental illness can lead to substance abuse as the person tries to treat the symptoms of the mental condition. Depression, anxiety, paranoia and restlessness are some of the common symptoms that mentally ill addicts are trying to self-medicate.

 How an Australian doctor discovered the first drug to treat mental illness  - Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health . It was the first effective drug discovered for the treatment of a mental illness , and it is, without doubt, ...

Meth users top 30pc spike in 'toxic blend' of mental illness and drug use - Health services are not equipped to treat the "toxic blend" of mental illness and substance abuse, experts say, with a new report finding one in four ...

Drug, alcohol and mental health problems  - When mental illness and substance use show up together it is called a “concurrent disorder” and it is particularly challenging to treat because both ...

Comorbidity of substance use and mental disorders in Europe  - The co-existence of mental illness and psychoactive drug or other substance use problems — otherwise known as 'comorbidity' or 'dual diagnosis' ...

Study finds link between mental illness and premature death in people with ... People with epilepsy are 11 times more likely to die prematurely than the general population, and the risk appears to be much higher for individuals with common co-existing psychiatric illnesses *, especially depression and alcohol and drug use ...

Seeking to end the 'drug-discovery recession' for mental illness  - The pace of discoveries and new therapies in mental illness lags far behind advances for cancer and other diseases in recent decades. They also aim ...

Must I Tell My Boss I'm Absent Because of Mental Illness ? - I am in treatment (weekly therapy and a drug regimen) for clinical depression and a panic disorder. They are, for the most part, very well managed. However, even the most well managed mental illness has flare-ups, during which I find it difficult to get out of bed, am plagued with suicidal thoughts or am ...

Research Looks Into Mental Illness , Smoking, Distracted Driving  - The link between mental illness and drug use, smoking deaths and distracted driving are all topics of Thursday's top health stories.

Underage drinking, smoking decline while overall mental illness , substance use remains stable - “There are stories of substance misuse, illicit drug use, prescription drug misuse, alcohol misuse, mental illness , suicide and an immense behavioral ...

New gene identified in women with mental illness - There has been an utmost urgency to identify biomarkers for mental illness that could significantly impact research and drug development," said lead ...

2013 Legislature must deal with mental illness Mental illness should not be equated with threat. The vast majority of those who live with some kind of disorder are harmless. But a small fraction – notably males with schizophrenia, a history of drug abuse and a record of violence – account for more ...

The under diagnosis of male mental illness may help us explain why 75 per cent of suicides are ...  - The research, which is carried out by Dr Ali Haggett of Exeter University, suggests that, although men are three times as likely to become alcohol dependent and more than twice as likely to use Class A drugs and to die of drug abuse, little is known about the development of psychological illness in men.

Her high school-age son was addicted to heroin and mentally ill, so mom leapt to the cause  - Yet, in her experience, drug rehabilitation centres don't want to deal with mental illness , and places that treat mental illness don't want to deal with ...

Patients with mental illness face high mortality risk in drug trials Patients with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder who participated in clinical drug trials were at a significantly  ...

Down and out in London: The Government should do more to ...  -  Some experts believe that the connection between drug use and mental illness is irrefutable. I cannot attest to this one way or the other. I've often felt  ...

Those living with mental disorders often find catharsis in substance abuse  - When it comes to a mental illness of any kind, the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality and the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health show 16.05 percent of Nevada’s population is affected.

More than 40 percent of all children in US now born out of wedlock : According to the U.S. department of Health and Human Services, fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy and criminality. Email. Print ...