The resurrection and the life.
This first-person account of a woman undergoing manic-depression concurrent with alcohol and drug problems highlights the difficulties of attaining help from a system geared toward treating one or the other but not both, and hints at the positive outcomes possible when an integrated approach to co-occurring addictive and mental disorders--one that incorporates the knowledge and perspectives of the client and the family as well as the professional--is available.
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Maine Office of Substance Abuse, Augusta, USA.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology*; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology*; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005260:Female; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans