{"id":389,"date":"2016-09-06T18:25:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/?page_id=389"},"modified":"2024-03-07T13:15:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:15:55","slug":"co-occurring-disorders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/mental-health-education\/issues\/co-occurring-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-occurring Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a\u00a0person\u00a0has a <a href=\"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/mental-health-education\/issues\/alcohol-and-substance-abuse\/\">drug or alcohol problem<\/a> and a mental health disorder, they are suffering from a co-occurring disorder (also known as dual diagnosis or dual disorders). Substance abuse without a co-occurring disorder is actually rare, as other disorders are so often tied to substance abuse. It&#8217;s unknown whether mental illnesses cause substance abuse problems or vice versa. Symptoms of one or both disorders can range from mild to severe.<\/p>\n<h2>3 Important Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>More than half of adults with severe mental illness also have a substance use disorder.<\/li>\n<li>Compared with people who have just one disorder, people with co-occurring disorders have more severe emotional, medical and social problems.<\/li>\n<li>Although the term &#8220;co-occurring disorders&#8221; sounds like two disorders, it can be more than two. An estimated 3 million people with COD have three or more disorders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a\u00a0person\u00a0has a drug or alcohol problem and a mental health disorder, they are suffering from a co-occurring disorder (also known as dual diagnosis or dual disorders). Substance abuse without a co-occurring disorder is actually rare, as other disorders are so often tied to substance abuse. It&#8217;s unknown whether mental illnesses cause substance abuse problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489,"parent":41,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-issue.tpl.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389\/revisions\/1889"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}