What Does It Mean If Someone Has Co-Occurring Disorders?

Co-occurring disorders
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1 What does it mean if someone has “co-occurring disorders”?
Someone with co-occurring disorders has at least one metal health problem and one substance use problem. In other words, it is a combination of substance-use and mental disorders. Patients with co-occurring disorders essentially have more disorders relating to the use of alcohol and other drugs (Abram, & Teplin, 1991). The common examples of co-occurring disorders include the combinations of major depression with cocaine addiction and borderline personality disorder with episodic poly-drug abuse.
2 When someone has both a mental health and a substance use disorder, is it always clear which disorder came first?
In many research papers, a mental health disorder usually comes first. People with rage disorders often try to lean on opiate drugs to soothe and sedate t...