Workforce challenges with clients with dual diagnosis

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Workforce challenges with clients with dual diagnosis
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Workforce challenges with clients with dual diagnosis
Dual diagnosis is practice used to treat who suffer from both psychiatric and addiction
disorder. Supporting patients with mental problems and substance use such as opioids is a great
challenge facing metal health service (Tsemberis,2014). Its complexity makes care, and
treatment services more difficult posing the client with high risk of being hospitalized and
sometimes to suicide. This paper tries to explain the difference challenges that face clients with
dual diagnosis and policies which can be implemented to curb them.
One on the main challenges related to this issue, is lack of clear regulatory policy that
monitor the rehabilitation services to these clients. Clients with these problem are entitled to high
quality, integrated care that is patient focused. Some of these rehabilitation homes fail to offer
this type of services posing the clients to more challenges. Research show that some of these
substance that are misused by the clients are addictive and the patients may find themselves
looking for the substances to use instead of seeking medical attention. This is a challenge and a
policy should be formulated to ensure that the opiods drugs are only accessed by patient with
doctor’s prescription.
In order to manage these challenges and bring about change the following policies should
be enacted and well-drawn procedure given on how to implement them. There should be
adequate skilled professionals in the rehabilitation centers and adequate equipment. Other
include education programs and training practices of the personals supporting these patients.
Another practice of implementing the practices that can curb the problem is creating awareness

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Different studies have been carried out on the strategies that can be used to curb the
problem associated with naloxone. Some of these include creating awareness of the general
public. Research findings show that, although naloxone is accepted globally as a method used to
reverse the effects of opioids overdose, a good number of people are not aware (Drake, 2017).
The different study recommends that a worldwide campaign should be carried out in different
countries to let make awareness of this medicine. By doing this, more lives will be saved from
clients with dual diagnosis.
One of the initiatives is to come up with is the need of education program. Various
treatment providers have different policies on how they admit patients with dual diagnoses
medication and the way in which medication is monitored and supplied. The way in which
physicians are used also differs on how they are integrated with the program. There is a need for
organizations for networking to enable the sharing of information since providers of the same
community does not work on isolation. It’s important to have a resource directory which
contains various modalities such as outpatient treatment, day treatment and care home which
should be available to the community (Tsemberis, 2016). There exists a gulf between mental
disorder health and another treatment system which has greatly heightened case managers need
to ask questions to determine if a given resource has the required expertise.
Training is another factor that determines the effectiveness of the efforts of treatment.
Staffs and medical providers in this sector of mental disorder are trained on how to handle their
patients. Staffs serving these clients should be equipped with the necessary skill to ensure that
the patient gets the best services. There is also the need for incorporating technology into this
matter (Drake,2011).