Core issues that led to the development, include the recognition that:
having either a mental health or a substance use disorder confers a substantial risk of also developing the other disorder
that co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders are the https://duald.com.au/expectation not the exception, amongst persons receiving treatment for either a mental health or a substance use disorder
that there are significant personal, familial and societal costs and harms strongly associated with multiple disorders
that both drug treatment and mental health clinicians, agencies and calendarsystems are struggling to evolve to deal more effectively with co-occurring disorders
Dual Diagnosis Australia and NDIS
