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Relationship between recalled parental bonding , adult attachment patterns and severity of heroin addiction
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Durjava, Lana |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Recent decades have been characterized by a growing interest in the relationship between attachment and psychopathology,1,2 with numerous studies confirming the connection between insecure attachment patterns and a variety of mental health disorders.3,4 Substance use disorders (SUDs) are also highly related to insecure attachment. However, due to complexity of SUDs, there remain a number of open questions, particularly with regard to possible interactions with co-occurring psychiatric disorders which are very common amongst population of dependent drug users. For example, in their study of 133 drug addicts, Khantzian & Treece,5 discovered that 93% met the criteria for one or more psychiatric disorders other than SUD, with depression and personality disorders being the most prominent. Brooner, Schmidt, Felch & Bigelow,6 studied with 237 intravenous drug users and discovered that 44% met the DSM-III-R criteria for diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder. Based on the hypothesis that substances are chosen due their specific emotional and social effects, Schindler et al.,4 have shown the differences in attachment patterns amongst users of different substances, namely opioids, cannabis and ecstasy. The current study narrows the focus solely on dependent use of heroin and aims to investigate whether there are differences in attachment patterns amongst individuals dependent on heroin with different levels of severity of addiction. More specifically, the study will analyse the relationship between recalled parental bonding in childhood, adult attachment patterns and severity of heroin addiction in terms of intensity of physical and affective withdrawal, withdrawal relief drug-taking and rapidity of reinstatement of withdrawal symptoms after a period of abstinence. These variables will be examined both by making comparisons between a group of individuals with heroin use disorder (HUD) and a control group, and by comparing subgroups of individuals with HUD. The study starts with the theoretical framework of attachment theory, following by description of a general model of the link between SUDs and insecure attachment patterns. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://medcraveonline.com/MOJAMT/MOJAMT-05-00114.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Addictive Behavior Antisocial Personality Disorder Antisocial behavior Attachments Cannabis Coping Behavior DSM-III Declaration (computer programming) Depressive disorder Drug abuser Ecstasy - drug Experiment Feeling upset Graph isomorphism problem Helsinki Declaration Heroin Dependence Interaction Inventory Mental disorders Munchausen Syndrome Opioids Personality Disorders Pyschological Bonding Revision procedure Schmidt decomposition Substance Use Disorders Temporomandibular Joint Disorders mental health standards characteristics substance |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
