Gateway's Hospital Bridge Podcast

The Chicken or the Egg: Untangling What Came First

Rico Bodin

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The Gateway Hospital Bridge Podcast is built for clinicians, nurses, peer specialists, and addiction professionals on the front lines of this work.


Despite the title, this episode is not about food or animals. Dr. Pomm lays out the groundwork for explaining what co-occurring mental health illness and addiction is. Before getting to real-life examples of what these diagnoses look like, we need to fully describe how these diagnoses arise. Sometimes, things might not always be what they seem to be.