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Dual Diagnosis: Schizophrenia and Substance Misuse Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder affecting 1% of the population, but incurs a considerable cost for the health care system due to its chronic nature. It represents a significant issue to the community as the illness not only affect the patients themselves, but also their families and friends in terms of care and social support. Schizophrenia involves many non-medical problems to the patient and his/her carers, such as prejudice and stigma by a public who is poorly educated in regards to mental illness. Some patients find themselves rejected by employers who're either fearful, or unwilling to hire a worker who they see as a burden to them. Thus, many chronically ill patients are caught in a deteriorating social cycle, falling into homelessness, or into crime and end up in the prison system. Patients who develop depression in association with schizophrenia also risk self-harm...

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