: About Me

Schizophrenia, an umbrella term itself, is often accompanied by other conditions. One glaring example is the estimated 70 % of schizophrenics that report substance abuse.1 In these cases, there needs to also be consideration given to the fact that the primary disorder may be the addiction, with the psychiatric disorder being secondary.2 Epidemiological models support both events. Both disorders are complicated and chronic ones with multiple causative agents implicated, varying from the social or environmental to the genetic, biological, and neurodevelopmental.3 They cannot be cured, though...