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The Opiate Dependence Syndrome: replication study using the SODQ in a New York clinic
Author(s) -
SUTHERLAND G.,
EDWARDS G.,
TAYLOR C.,
PHILLIPS G. T.,
GOSSOP M. R.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1988.tb00507.x
Subject(s) - opiate , replication (statistics) , variance (accounting) , psychology , sample (material) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , chemistry , receptor , accounting , chromatography , virology , business
Summary Two papers have appeared in the literature recently reporting the use of the Severity of Opiate Dependence Questionnaire (SODQ) with American and British samples of opiate addicts. This paper presents the findings of a third study. The SODQ was completed by a further 126 subjects attending the original New York Clinic and the results largely confirmed our earlier findings: first the four main sections of the SODQ each give a strong first factor and secondly when these are combined a strong overall factor emerges. These results are again at variance with those found in the British sample and possible reasons briefly discussed.