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Home › Part B: Responding to co-occurring conditions › B7: Managing and treating specific disorders › Substance-induced disorders › Treating substance-induced disorders
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    Treating substance-induced disorders

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    As symptoms of substance-induced disorders are likely to reduce with abstinence, abstinence is generally recommended as a treatment approach, with careful monitoring of mental health symptoms [35]. Workers are referred to previous sections of this chapter for evidence in relation to the treatment of specific mental disorders; as, in general, evidence for the treatment of substance-induced disorders beyond abstinence is lacking.

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