Qualified treatment of patients with addictive disorders - Clinical challenges and structural implication in a day hospital

Abstract

Qualified treatment of patients with addictive disorders is also performed in a day hospital setting specialized on addictive disorders. Little is known about the co-morbidity among addicted patients treated in a day hospital for addictive disorders. Thus, we performed a cross-sectional study to assess the psychiatric and physical co-morbidity of alcohol addictive patients (N = 184) in a day hospital setting admitted to the Centre of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Bielefeld, Germany, in 2002. We found that more than half of all patients suffered an episode of another psychiatric disorder while they were treated for alcohol addiction. The most frequent dual diagnoses were a second add..