Dual Disorders in Addiction and Mood Disorders: Comorbidity or Specific Diagnosis?

In clinical practice, depressive or irritable moods are often reported as comorbidities among patients with Substance Use Disorders (SUD). Such dual disorders pose difficult challenges to mental health professionals when diagnosing disorders or implementing their effective treatment. For example, depression could also be considered a risk factor for relapse in alcohol use disorder. For mental health professionals, comprehensive etiological findings of dual disorders could not only provide more precise assessment and diagnosis but could also develop more effective treatments for dual disorders.



The goal of this Research Topic is to provide get an in-depth understanding of dual disorders in addiction and mood disorders. More specifically, the aim is to

is to accumulate findings concerning etiological evidence of dual disorders in terms of the biological-social and psychological model as well exploring more effective diagnosis and treatment specific to dual disorders based on these etiological findings.

We welcome original research, case reports, and review articles on but not limited to, the following subjects of interest:



• Precise medicine model of dual disorders using genetic methods

• Prevalence and risk factors of dual disorders

• Psychosocial model of dual disorders

• Self-medication model and dual disorders

• Clinical trial of the effectiveness of different treatments on dual disorders

• Psychopharmacological study or drug treatments for dual disorders

Keywords: Dual Disorders, Addiction, Affective disorders, Comorbidity

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