View Figure 1. Race/Ethnicity of Adolescent Admissions, by Psychiatric Diagnosis Status: 2003
People are said to have co-occurring disorders when they have “one or more disorders relating to the use of alcohol and/or other drugs of abuse as well as one or more mental disorders. A diagnosis of co-occurring disorders occurs when at least one disorder of each type can be established independent of the other and is not simply a cluster of symptoms resulting from the one disorder.”. . . This report compares adolescent admissions with co-occurring disorders to all other adolescent admissions, that is, those with a substance abuse problem only. Among adolescent admissions, 21 percent (more than 16,000) had a psychiatric problem in addition to an alcohol or drug problem. For comparison, 19 percent of adult TEDS admissions had co-occurring disorders.