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The role of psychiatric disorders in predicting drug dependence treatment outcomes.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Compton, Wilson M. Cottler, Linda Bauer Jacobs, Jacqueline J. L. Ben-Abdallah, Arbi Spitznagel, Edward L. |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | OBJECTIVE Previous research has demonstrated that psychiatric disorders are common among people who abuse alcohol and drugs, but few studies have examined the relationship of psychiatric disorders to drug treatment outcome. The authors conducted such an examination. METHOD They successfully reinterviewed 401 drug-dependent subjects (94% of the baseline in-treatment sample) and determined their drug abuse status at follow-up 12 months later. RESULTS Analyses indicated that several baseline psychiatric disorders predicted worse outcomes at follow-up. Major depression predicted using a larger number of substances and having more drug dependence diagnoses and symptoms. Alcohol dependence predicted more dependence diagnoses, antisocial personality disorder predicted using a larger number of substances, and generalized anxiety disorder predicted having more dependence diagnoses. Outcomes among men were more closely associated with psychiatric status than outcomes among women, except for phobias, which predicted a better outcome among women. CONCLUSIONS These results are unique in their assessment of individuals dependent on illicit substances. Overall, the authors found that women with phobias had better outcomes and that men with psychiatric disorders in general, men with major depression, and men with antisocial personality disorder had worse outcomes. |
| Starting Page | 1071 |
| Ending Page | 1074 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ils.unc.edu/bmh/neoref/nrschizophrenia/jsp/review/tmp/626.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 12727692v1 |
| Volume Number | 160 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Journal | The American journal of psychiatry |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic Antisocial Personality Disorder Antisocial behavior Anxiety Disorders Drug Dependence Ethanol Generalized Anxiety Disorder Large Major Depressive Disorder Mental disorders Personality Disorders Phobic anxiety disorder Unipolar Depression substance |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
