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Select either a target population of older adults or a gender-specific specific (male or female) population. Taking an epidemiological perspective, explain the implications of dual diagnosis as they relate to successful treatment with your selected population.

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200 words of notes and research offer ideas related to increases in dual diagnoses among older adults (ages 64+) with depression and substance abuse/alcohol disorders.

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Research has uncovered that increases in dual diagnoses among older adults (ages 64+) with depression and substance abuse/alcohol disorders are increasing at extremely high rates and are quite troubling, as noted by Levi-Minzi, Surratt, Kurtz, & Buttram, 2013, p. 141719. In fact, experts cite how adults age 60 and up actually experience substance abuse as one of America's fastest growing health problems and mental health diagnoses. Studies also confirm that this dual diagnosis also happens since "Among adults over 65, nonmedical use of prescription-type drugs was most common (0.8%)" (Levi-Minzi, Surratt, Kurtz, & Buttram, 2013, p. 141719.).

The Center for Disease Control even identified alcohol as the factor in more than 21,000 deaths among adults 65 or older since 2013 (Beechem, 2002). Because many elderly combining alcohol and medications, ...

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