Frankie Vellbond

Given the intimate relationship between depression and drug addiction, it should perhaps go without saying that depression treatment and drug treatment are often inextricably bound up with one another. And the relationship cuts both ways: As successful depression treatment is that which takes careful stock of its patients’ proclivity towards drug , so is successful drug treatment that which is grounded in a thorough evaluation of its patients’ mental health. Indeed, more often that not, beating drug addiction means beating the depression from which it stems.