The co-existence of a substance abuse disorder with a psychiatric disorder. The diagnostic principle is based on the fact that it has been found often that chemically dependent patients also have psychiatric problems of various degrees of severity.

Annotation

restrict to substance abuse with ment disord; IM GEN only; coord NIM with specific addiction (IM) + specific ment disord (IM); DF: DUAL DIAG

DUI

D017831 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0026943

Previous indexing

specific mental disorder/diagnosis (1989-1993); specific substance abuse disorder/diagnosis (1989-1993)

History note

94

Public note

94