Working toward service users with coexisting substance use and mental health issues

Working toward service users with co-
existing substance use and mental
health issues
-A brief presentation on its challenges
and recovery

Introduction
• Healthcare workers face lots of challenges whilst working with
patients with multiple health disorders.
• Handling the patients with co-existing substance use and any other
mental health issue is quite difficult (Bjørkquist & Hansen, 2018).
• This presentation focuses on the challenges while working.
• It will also focus on the ways of addressing all the challenges.

What is substance use and mental
issue?
• Substance use disorders is defined as the mental illness caused by excessive
use of and alcohol and drugs that creates significant impairment clinically.
• Mental health issues and substance use disorders affect people and their lives
which often make them socially-isolated (Moore, 2003).
• It causes serious functional impairments that limits multiple life activities
(Dixon, Holoshitz & Nossel, 2016).

Working towards it
• Individuals developed substance use disorders are also diagnosed with mental
health issues.
• Generally if any mental health problem is left untreated then the problem related to
substance use gets worse.
• Healthcare workers provide various healing services as well as treatments to work
towards it (Lever & Geurts, 2016).
• The healthcare professionals find the link between substance misuse and mental
health illness to increase positive prognoses for the patients (Sinha, Garg &
Prakash, 2018).