| The relationship between drug addiction, alcoholism and | | | | run and usually results in a person facing addiction or |
| mental illness is a complicated one and many times | | | | alcoholism.Using drugs or alcohol as a means of self |
| greatly misunderstood. History has shown us that | | | | medicating only makes matters worse. A person with |
| many people who suffer from mental illness turn to | | | | mental health issues should always meet with a |
| drugs and alcohol as a means to self medicate, to | | | | psychiatrist who has been trained in the field of |
| tolerate feelings they believe to be intolerable. The | | | | addiction and alcoholism (addictionology) for a full |
| problem here is self medicating rarely works in the long | | | | psychiatric evaluation. |