Dual Diagnosis Ireland

Dual Diagnosis Ireland ‘Dual Diagnosis’ is the term used when a person suffers from both a substance addiction problem and another mental health issue such as depression.

Most mental health services and addiction treatment centres in Ireland are currently not organised to treat people holistically. For example, if you have difficulties abstaining from alcohol due to anxiety, you can not enter rehabilitation services (most residential drug services insist you must be “dry” before entry). Yet you can not get your anxiety problem treated until your addiction to alcoho

l has been addressed. According to figures from the American Medical Association, up to 37% of alcohol abusers and 53% of drug abusers also have at least one serious mental illness, and 29% of people diagnosed as mentally ill abuse either alcohol or drugs. A study by the UK Dept. of Health put the figures even higher, suggesting that 75% of users of drug services and 85% of users of alcohol services experienced mental health problems.44% of mental health service users reported drug use. (Weaver et al, 2002)

Despite this, there is currently little awareness of the problem in Ireland. Our aim is to change this and make sure people get the right kind of treatments at the first time of asking.

28/08/2025

Mental health funding has stayed under 6% for too long. We’re calling for a clear path to reach 10% of the health budget by 2030. Budget 2026 must be a step forward.

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