The Severity of Personality Pathology: A Risk Factor for Concurrent Substance Use Disorders in Alcohol Use Disorder.

CONCLUSIONS: The severity of maladaptive personality pathology represents one of the main aspects involved in CO-substance use disorders among individuals with AUD. This dimension predicts the CO-substance use disorders above and beyond specific personality dimensions and other psychiatric conditions. Therefore, personality functioning should be precisely assessed and personality pathology should be addressed in the framework of AUD treatments for promoting effective long-term outcomes. PMID: 31088228 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Dual Diagnosis - Category: Addiction Tags: J Dual Diagn Source Type: research