title: [Treatment program for dual-diagnosis substance abusers].
abstract: Dual-diagnosis mentally ill patients, i.e. those characterized with substance abuse problems combined with mental health problems, are a challenge both for systems treating substance abusers and for mental health services. These patients are not easily integrated in either of these healthcare systems and/or are treated only for one aspect of their problem by each of these systems. For such patients it is necessary to create a separate treatment model, combining care of the problem of substance abuse and attention to the patient's mental pathology, according to his individual personality traits. For purposes of this programme a treatment setting operating on the model of a therapeutic community is proposed. This setting will open an affiliated treatment programme for dual-diagnosed patients in a separate treatment programme that is not part of the therapeutic community but will be affiliated with it and will accept dual-diagnosis patients.
authors.affiliation: Academic College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel, Izrael, Department of Behavioral Sciences.
authors.forename: Isack
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kandel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*