Psychiatric Medicine and Addiction Recovery

Psychiatric Medicine and Addiction Recovery – Research in the 1950s showed that animals – mammals in particular – compulsively used and abused the same drugs as humans. Yet other psycoactive drugs – the ones used for treatment of mental health conditions – did not cause the same compulsive use patterns. Dr. Darryl Inaba expands on the use of these medications, and the ways they affect people with substance use disorders – commonly knows as dual-diagnosis or co-occurring disorders.