This grounded study examines how people who are dually diagnosed with a major mental illness and substance use disorder recover their lives from a past of intemperate insanity and discover a world in a rich and productive present. Thirty participants, including consumers, staff and families, took part in the study. Additional slices of data were retrieved from the analysis of six policy documents and 72 hours of participant observation. All data were constantly compared and analysed using Glasers emergent approach to grounded theory. Research and literature on those with coexisting disorders...