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- Title
Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations: Bipolar Patients with Comorbid Substance Use Disorders.
- Authors
Salloum, Ihsan; Williams, Lauren; Douaihy, Antoine
- Abstract
The article presents diagnostic and treatment considerations for determining the frequency and clinical significance of bipolar disorder and substance use disorders comorbidity. It reviews related literature on comorbidity of bipolar disorder (BD) and alcoholism and substance use disorder (SUD). Obstacles to identifying the clinical manifestations of comorbidity of bipolar disorders and SUD are revealed. Also discussed are the pharmacotherapeutic approaches for comorbid BD and SUD.
- Subjects
COMORBIDITY; BIPOLAR disorder; SUBSTANCE abuse; ALCOHOLISM; DRUG therapy
- Publication
Psychiatric Annals, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 11, p716
- ISSN
0048-5713
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3928/00485713-20081101-09