Specialists from the Hospital Provincial de Castellón take part in the International Congress of pathology Dual of Barcelona.

Delegation of Castellón will have a prominent presence at this meeting, because they will come close to two dozen professionals from psychiatrists, psychologists and nurses in the area of mental health of the Consortium.

Also, in this forum will be presented the balance of activity of the outreach programme of the unit of pathology Dual Grave of Consortium, dedicated to providing comprehensive treatment to patients who have a mental health problem and that, moreover, are addicted to a substance.

For the treatment of these people, the Consortium has a program of hospitalization and other outpatient follow-up, said Dr. Gonzalo Haro, responsible for the unit.

Last year the Unit handled a total of 85 patients, of whom 76 per cent were men, and the median age was 38 years.

Ill patients, among which predominate which are a psychotic pattern such as schizophrenia, followed by patients with a severe personality disorder is ”, said Dr. Haro.

With regard to the most frequent drugs consumed by these patients, 62 percent of the treaties were dependent on alcohol and 56 percent of cocaine.

Year of income in the outpatient program, 53 percent of patients remained in the same by have not improved enough to be discharged. The remaining percentage was commissioned, as these patients managed to be abstinent drug 12 months and also stable from his mental illness. For this reason, after discharge were referred to other less specialized resources in dual pathology as the day Hospital, unit of addictive behavior or Mental health units.

The exposed results show that the referral to one or another resource depends crucially on psychiatric diagnosis and not the substance that is addictive.