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Any thoughts on dual diagnosis and prescribing medications to difficult child's?
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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 517035"><p>My feeling is that many of our difficult children start using substances as a way to deal with mental health issues.... BUT then the substance abuse issue becomes and issue as well. So they still have to deal with SA as well as the mental health issue. Dealing with both is important but difficult..... My son seems to feel that if he deals with his mental health issues his SA issues will go away and I think this is folly.</p><p></p><p>As far as medications.....addicts need to be careful of what medications they use and they need to avoid medications that are addictive or used on the street. So for example avoid adderall for ADHD, avoid any benzos (a lot of which are used for anxiety).... but most antidepressants are not addictive, there are some ADHD medications that are not addictive and some non addictive things than can help anxiety. Hopefully a psychiatric doctor used to dual diagnosis will be careful on this front.</p><p></p><p>TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 517035"] My feeling is that many of our difficult children start using substances as a way to deal with mental health issues.... BUT then the substance abuse issue becomes and issue as well. So they still have to deal with SA as well as the mental health issue. Dealing with both is important but difficult..... My son seems to feel that if he deals with his mental health issues his SA issues will go away and I think this is folly. As far as medications.....addicts need to be careful of what medications they use and they need to avoid medications that are addictive or used on the street. So for example avoid adderall for ADHD, avoid any benzos (a lot of which are used for anxiety).... but most antidepressants are not addictive, there are some ADHD medications that are not addictive and some non addictive things than can help anxiety. Hopefully a psychiatric doctor used to dual diagnosis will be careful on this front. TL [/QUOTE]
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