Citation

Carbone MG, Tagliarini C, Ricci M, Lupi AM, Sarandrea L, Ceban A, Casella P, Maremmani I. Heroin Addict. Relat. Clin. Probl. 2019; 21(5): 61-66.

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(Copyright © 2019, European Opiate Addiction Treatment Association, Publisher Pacini Editore)

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In previous research projects of ours, we have succeeded in defining a psychopathology that appears to be specific to the substance use disorder, while remaining stable and independent of many factors and variables. The primary symptom dimensions considered were: W/BT, SS, S/P, PA, and V/S.

METHODS: Continuing this line of investigation, we tested the independence of this five-dimension psychopathology from ethnicity by assessing its five dimensions in migrant subjects with Heroin Use Disorder (M-HUD), and comparing them, after matching for age and gender, with Italian HUD patients (IT-HUD), selected from the Addiction PISA-DATASET in a naturalistic, case-control study.

RESULTS: Despite the differences regarding educational level, job typology and economic situation, M-HUD and IT-HUD patients showed the same severity and the same predominant typology in the five dimensions we consider specific to SUD.

CONCLUSIONS: The present study once again shed light on a specific aggregation of psychopathological symptoms in SUD patients, a finding that strengthens the credibility of the five-factor solution. © 2019, Pacini Editore S.p.A.. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; age; violence; suicide; female; male; sex difference; psychosis; ethnicity; comparative study; major clinical study; mental disease; controlled study; priority journal; anxiety disorder; employment; diamorphine; drug dependence treatment; case control study; work; educational status; heroin dependence; Article; Symptom Checklist 90; naturalistic inquiry; DSM-5; migrant; worthlessness; Italian (citizen); economic status; Heroin Use Disorder (HUD); Migration process; SCL90; Specific psychopathology; Substance Use Disorder (SUD)