For many people struggling with addiction, there is often something deeper going on beneath the surface. A growing body of ...

When a person has both a mental illness and a substance use disorder, it is called co-occurring disorders. These health problems often affect each other, making it complicated to diagnose, treat, and ...

Photo by Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Jim Anderson, MPAS, PA-C, tries to understand the underlying co-occurring disorders that led Nick Reiner to allegedly murder his ...

You may have heard the term “co-occurring disorder” or “dual diagnosis” or “comorbidity”—but what do these constructs mean, exactly? The term co-occurring disorder refers to the presence of two or ...

A letter from Dr. Paula Riggs, Professor, Psychiatry. You’ve probably heard a lot about the youth mental health crisis and the opioid epidemic. But what’s often missing from the conversation is the ...

Launched in 2013, the harris project is a nonprofit dedicated to the prevention and treatment of co-occurring disorders (COD) — the combination of mental health challenges and substance use issues. Us ...

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...