Drug dependence and personality disorder: its relationship to the treatment of drug dependence.
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 1884663.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
A perennial debate regarding drug dependence is the issue of the contribution of psychopathic personality disorder to dependence behaviour. The research reported here suggests that the effects of treatment appear to have little effect on underlying psychopathy. However, levels of psychopathy seem irrelevant to treatment outcome.
Medical subject headings
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Substance-Related Disorders