The topics that we both chose to do a concept map on are similar. My topic was talking about mental health patient and your topic talks about substance abuse patients and patients that are in an abusive relationship. Unfortunately, substance abuse and mental health sometimes co-exist, sometimes patient have dual diagnosis. According to an encyclopedia entry on co-occurring disorders a patient that is “diagnosed with a substance abuse disorder are twice as likely to also have serious mental illness” (Woldin, 2015, para. 3). Many of the psychiatric patients that are boarding in the emergency room waiting for inpatient bed have substance abuse issues as well. Finding placement for these patients is even harder; there are only a few facilities
