PMID: 8583883Sep 1, 1995Paper

Mental disorders of drug addicts in treatment: a study of prevalence with retrospective evaluation by means of structured diagnostic interviews

Minerva psichiatrica
G PozziE Tempesta

Abstract

The aim of this research is to evaluate current and lifetime psychiatric morbidity according to ICD-10 criteria of subjects in treatment for psychoactive substance dependence. It is a cross-sectional clinical-epidemiological study also collecting retrospective information by means of structured diagnostic interviews. Ninety-nine outpatients fulfilling criteria of eligibility were recruited by systematic sampling at 8 Italian National Health Service's Drug Dependence Units. Criteria of inclusion were the presence of clinical diagnosis of psychoactive substance dependence according to ICD-10 and age 18-45, while criteria of exclusion were pharmacological distress related to acute withdrawal from street drugs and the presence of severe cognitive impairment, delirium or acute psychoses in order to assure reliability of the interviews. Only 75 patients accepted to participate, were enrolled in the study and interviewed by means of a European adaptation of the Addiction Severity Index. Finally, the Composite International Diagnostic Interview was completed in 65 cases. The prevalence of current psychiatric morbidity for any disorder in addition to substance use disorders was 22.2%, and lifetime prevalence was 35.4% (but, if drop-out ...Continue Reading

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