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Antisocial Alcoholic Patients Show as Much Improvement at 14‐Month Follow‐up as Non‐Antisocial Alcoholic Patients
Author(s) -
Verheul Roel,
Brink Wim van den,
Koeter Maarten W.J.,
Hartgers Christina
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1080/105504999306054
Subject(s) - antisocial personality disorder , psychology , mood , psychiatry , conduct disorder , clinical psychology , injury prevention , poison control , medicine , medical emergency
The authors investigated the impact of DSM‐III‐R adult criteria for antisocial personality disorder (and co‐occurrence of childhood conduct or mood disorder) on one‐year changes of multi‐domain problem severity in 309 alcoholic patients. Adult antisocial traits were associated with more drug, legal, and psychiatric problems at baseline and with more drug problems at follow‐up. However, patients with antisocial traits showed at least as much improvement from baseline through follow‐up as their non‐antisocial counterparts. Furthermore, the co‐occurrence of childhood conduct disorder or mood disorder among the antisocial alcoholics did not define prognostically relevant subgroups. These findings suggest that antisocial alcoholics benefit from treatment at least as much as non‐antisocial alcoholics.