Specific personality traits and associated psychosocial distresses among individuals with heroin or methamphetamine use disorder in Taiwan.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate substance abusers with high novelty seeking and harm avoidance, corresponding to explosive (borderline) or sensitive (narcissistic) patterns, to have a higher tendency to suffer from somatic and psychosocial distresses. PMID: 31500938 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31500938?dopt=Abstract

Source: J Formos Med Assoc - September 6, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ma CH, Lin KF, Chen TT, Yu YF, Chien HF, Huang WL Tags: J Formos Med Assoc Source Type: research