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- Title
Traitement intégré de la comorbidité toxicomanie et santé mentale chez les populations urbaines : la situation montréalaise.
- Authors
Dubreucq, Simon; Chanut, Florence; Jutras-Aswad, Didier
- Abstract
The prevalence of patients diagnosed with both a psychiatric and an addiction disorder is considerable. Like many other large urban centers, Montreal harbors many of these socially marginalized individuals. In spite of a wide range of resources for the treatment of each condition taken singly, there has been until recently an alarming dearth of programs aimed at providing integrated treatment models. In recent years, the CHUM has endeavored to implement such a program in order to address the multiple needs of a population often rendered vulnerable in many respects. In this article, the authors address the magnitude of this “dual diagnosis” problem, existing intervention models and the obstacles faced by this population in terms of access to health care ; they describe the steps leading to the establishment of an Addiction Psychiatric Unit at the CHUM and the challenges arising from the creation of a multidisciplinary integrated treatment model in an urban setting.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); MENTAL illness treatment; PSYCHIATRIC epidemiology; INTEGRATED health care delivery; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; COMORBIDITY; CITY dwellers; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Sante Mentale au Quebec, 2012, Vol 37, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0383-6320
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1012642ar