Substance Abuse And Recovery: Mental Health Recovery

A difficult challenge to the juvenile justice system and child welfare system is working with adolescents with comorbid difficulties, causing these adolescents to becoming at risk for incarceration and involvement with the juvenile and adult justice system. The juvenile justice system appears to be having a challenging time in determining how to respond and treat adolescents with mental health and substance use. "Many

According to the Diagnostic Statistic Manual 5 (DSM-5) substance use disorder is when the individual has a dependency on alcohol or drug, followed by penetrating craving and antisocial behavior to acquire the substance. The terms substance abuse and substance dependence refer to substance use disorder, which has been separated into three classifications as follows

Addiction has a way of pulling your attention away from your basic needs and making it harder for you to succeed in life. It's a sad truth that I've seen happen to so many people over the years. These are good people, with good brains and real potential, but addiction takes over and they can only focus on that aspect of their life.

Once someone enters treatment, there are a number of addiction recovery options that they may be given. Since every addiction is different, patients are given the unique blend of treatment options that work best for their circumstance. Most patients will need to start by going into a detox program. Afterward, rehab may include options like counseling, peer support and relapse prevention.

The occurrence or diagnosis of depression in relation to drug use or abuse presents itself as a bi-directional relationship. Meaning the onset of one of these factors (depression or already present substance use) creates an equal opportunity for the consequence of another factor to appear. Both depression and substance use and dependency have the potential to co-habitat each other in a comorbid state. Symptoms occurring with depression, especially if they are left untreated, are shown to have increased rates of drug use potential while consistent substance use and abuse can cause depressive symptoms. In examining each condition separately and in conjunction of one another as well as a variety of different effects caused by substance use, treatment

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that there are about 100,000 of deaths per year and there are approximately 8 million people in the United States who have a substance abuse problem (CDC, 2015). A better understanding and greater attention to the commonly abused substance and its treatment would be beneficial in a provider's practice and will also protect the provider from the legalities of prescribing these medications. There are several forms of treatment for every abused substance and the main goal is to help the patient to stop the stop and helping them during the phase of withdrawal. The intent of this paper is to discuss the commonly used substance for abuse and its treatment with the implications

Just as complex as the trillions of cells that keep our bodies functioning are the effects and correlations of mental health and substance use disorders. The effect of substance use disorder and psychiatric illnesses impact individuals biologically, psychologically, and sociologically, however, the correlation among mental illnesses and substance use disorders are not clearly defined. Due to a lack of knowledge of substance use as a disorder and the correlation with mental health, the individuals who suffer from these conditions are marginalized and pushed to tattered edges of their social strata. Mental health and substance use disorder can create devastating effects on the individuals as well as their micro, meso, exo, and macrosystems, which perpetuate the negative effects and realities of these individuals. In our current times with the mass amount of substance use the plagues our society, and the continued high volume of mental health, it is critical that we gain an understanding of the correlation between mental health and substance use disorders to better treat and support those whose realties are filled with unknown pain and exile. Mental health and substance use disorder and their affects are clearly related, however, the question that remains is whether or not substance use disorders can create the manifestation of mental illnesses?

In mental health and substance abuse, we must understand which problem is first. When working with individuals who are experiencing substance abuse problems to counteract the effects of a mental illness will attempt to treat themselves, instead of seeking out proper medical care.

Objective ---Mindfulness is known as the ability to maintain a continuous awareness of environment, feelings, sensations, and thoughts. This practice focuses on the acceptance of what is happening around and within ourselves by being conscious of our feelings and thoughts. The significance of feelings and thoughts, especially negativity, has shown to impact a patient 's treatment by ultimately relapsing into the use of substance of abuse. Mindfulness has been studied for over 30 years, however there is not an abundant amount of clinical evidence to support the use of mindfulness training in substance abuse recovery. The goal of this manuscript is to compile information from clinical trials about the benefits, efficacy, and use of the practice of mindfulness in substance abuse recovery.

This paper evaluates the relationship between the mild to severely mentally ill and substance abuse. Substance abuse is often seen in adolescents and adults, whether they are mentally ill or not. Mental illness and substance abuse is more commonly known as a dual diagnosis. Often times, the treatment for this particular diagnosis is harder to treat than if each condition were treated on its own. Early treatment of dually diagnosed disorders may be a prevention strategy to end future problematic behaviors. The combination of substance abuse and mental illness can be due to many different factors. Many people often deny the association between substance abuse and mental illness, and believe that one can’t trigger the other. There are multiple theories that explain the relationship between the two disorders. This essay will also provide statistical research information that shows the substance use of a normal person and that of a person with mild to severe mental illness.

Tolerance (represents a diminished response to a drug, such as heroin, and ultimately requiring a higher dose of the drug to achieve the same effect)

Moreover, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health (2011) stated that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) involves health systems, practices and products that are not part of conventional medicine. It also added, “Surveys show that 27–60 percent of chronic pain patients use CAM.” Nonetheless, clinicians are urged to learn about this alternative treatment for pain which raise the possibility of interactions with conventional treatments. Cheatle et al., reports that acupuncture, one of the most widely used CAM therapies for substance abuse, yoga, and optimal healing environment are some of the many options currently being used and studied in the literature as options for treatment of patients with SUDs (2014, p. 46-47). Researches

In "The Contributions of Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging to Understanding Mechanisms of Behavior Change in Addiction," Morgenstern, Naqvi, Debellis & Breiter (2013) examine the mechanisms of behavioral change and effective treatment interventions to improve addiction recovery outcomes. Unnecessarily creating an acronym out of the phrase mechanisms of behavioral change, the authors claim a recent "upsurge of interest" in understanding how behavioral change takes place from a cognitive-behavioral perspective. In particular, psychosocial treatments have been used to address addiction problems. The authors build the research on the assumption that there are limitations in the prevailing models of addiction, which are preventing behavioral interventions from being effective. The authors hypothesize that cognitive neuroscience can fill in gaps in the literature on addiction treatment and intervention efficacy. Cognitive neuroscience models of addiction may offer "alternative conceptual and methodological approaches" to studying the "psychological processes" that characterize addiction (p. 1). This is not an experimental design, but merely an exploratory paper that critiques current addiction models and the psycho-social treatment interventions used to treat addiction. The authors review literature and neuroimaging reports to suggest future research on addiction processes and potential interventions.

Although the BPS model had been adopted by many professionals and has gained much support as an effective model of addiction rehabilitation, there are still aspects that leave room for the possibility of improvement. The model is based on the idea that many factors can play an equal role in contributing to a disease. Some have criticized the model due to the fact that some diseases involve few psychological or social factors. Although this is rarely the case for addiction counseling, some still believe that a distribution of focus on multiple issues may reduce the ability to focus on the issues that present the largest presenting problem. Since the model was proposed there have been aspects that have been added such as spirituality, still, one critic argues that the model is “leaving out a critical ingredient of the healing system, the physician-as if the physician were the isolated observer, posited by the mechanistic model, whose observations do not alter the system in any fundamental way” (Ruane, 1986). Additional criticisms include Foss and Rothenberg who argue that the model concedes too much to the traditional biomedical approach, and that modem medicine needs an entirely new set of "basic sciences (1988). But these criticisms suggest alternative models and in many ways they can be handled by simple extension of the BPS model. Criticisms also appear to surround the application of the BPS model in one way that is extremely relevant to addictions counseling as is

Substance abuse seems to be rising in prevalence per my experiences in mental health and human services or perhaps the frequency of this topic is actually the more prevalent in these field. Either way, I’ve grown passion and empathy for those who experience addiction disorders and the large population that is affected by just one person’s abuse. My aim is to help in recovery by educating the public on the issues and causes of addiction as well as through other methods as well. Doweiko (2015) mentions in his text that substance abuse is the most “preventable cause of death”, and I want to contribute to the prevention. I’ve realized that this disease does not discriminate and can be found in many individuals who