Andrzej Kiejna
Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
Title: Dual diagnosis - Whether it is in Poland underestimated clinical phenomenon
Biography
Biography: Andrzej Kiejna
Abstract
According to the definition of dual diagnosis mental disorders associated with addiction should meet the ICD-10 or DSM-5.Literature data indicate that about 30-50% addicted to alcohol or other drugs have severe mental disorder, which is twice higher rate than the population do not use psychoactive substances. Similarly, among the major mental disorder, approximately 30% used alcohol and suffering from disorders associated with it. In Poland in the years 2010-11was carried out study of the prevalence of mental disorders in the general population in adults, according to the methodology of the World Mental Health Survey Initiative. Among the most common lifetime (LT) diagnostic categories were diagnosed with alcohol abuse, males 18.6% and females 3.3% and addiction respectively 4.1% and 0.4%. In contrast, substance addiction, 1.8% in men and 0.8% among women.