�Letter to the Editor
This message will be very shortly be followed by a yearner one that will further explain the very important -- simply unfortunately -- also selfsame politically incorrect psychiatric diagnosing of "Substance Dependency-Induced Psychosis" (SDIP).
This label has, effectively, been applied to it by the Psychiatric Establishment. Combined with the economically wrong label by the pharmaceutical industry -- both been successful in making this diagnosis unavailable to the public.
I am a psychiatrist with a special interest in substance dependence -- wHO has been on an over 25 year quest to get this diagnosis officially established. There is very impressive evidence for the rigor of the diagnosis. As a direct result of my efforts, the province of California currently uses knowledge of the diagnosing in its mental wellness system planning -- though it avoids any official mention of the diagnosis.
SDIP resembles schizophrenia, which it's ordinarily diagnosed as. It is also intimately as common as schizophrenia. One third of the SDIP cases I hold treated let enjoyed a complete remittal -- which is commonly permanent. Most of these cases had already been diagnosed as schizophrenic. The good results were a combination of their receiving the proper treatment, and the fact that SDIP patients ar usually less ill than schizophrenia patients.
Most cases of "replete recovery from schizophrenia" are actually cases of SDIP, where the persons get stopped their addictive substance use. However, lifelong abstinence is oft not sufficient for any remission of the psychosis.
It is a especial shame that knowledge of the risk of infection of development this unwellness has non been made available to persons world Health Organization are undergoing treatment for substance dependencies. Making such available would increase the rate of recovery for them -- and hence also help to greatly reduce the rate of later SDIP complications.
It is already well known in psychiatry that on that point is a large academic degree of association of the diagnoses of schizophrenia (and other functional psychoses) with those of substance dependencies. But this association and the episode of these disorders have largely been ignored. This is because the association has been explained away by the theoretical and convenient "biologic spin" that it is due to their "common genetic factors."
Unfortunately, there has been a sad absence of any in force whistleblowers for the diagnosing. I am now positive that the most likely way to get this very valuable diagnosis useable to the public would be for the media to adequately report on the diagnosing.
Such would almost for sure soon consequence in public pressure "persuading" one or more aesculapian schools to perform the necessary clinical trial for the diagnosis.
Sincerely nerve-racking to improve mental health care,
Norman Jay Gersabeck MD
ngersabeck (at) comcast.net
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