United States: A new study shows that people with antisocial personality disorder who are here more likely to have problems with addiction to alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco. This disorder which can actually cause traits like being manipulative and impulsive.
The research, published in Translational Psychiatry, finds a strong connection between these traits and risky substance use. This helps explain why people with antisocial personality disorder often have more serious addiction issues.
ITS pathological features are manipulative behavior, impulsiveness, irritability, and absolute lack of the sense of guilt. Dependent personality disorder causes various predisposed behavioral disorders such as substance use disorders, a misuse of substances including alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, cocaine and opioids.
As reported by psypost.org, earlier studies established that antisocial personality disorder was generally more prevalent in patients with substance use disorders, but the nature of the association between them was not well understood. The researchers were keen in establishing whether antisocial personality disorder was correlated with the severity of the various substance use disorders and the behaviors linked to substance misuse.
The researchers focused on five specific substance use disorders: alcohol, cannabis/coffee, cocaine/nicotine, opioids and tobacco. Every substance use disorder was performed for the diagnostic status – whether the participant met the criteria for this disorder or not – and the severity – whether the disorder is mild, moderate, or severe, in dependence on the number of criteria specified. They also assessed and looked at single items tapping each of the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for each of the substance use disorders including the use of the substances in a hazardous manner, cravings, and attempts to quit.
“One of my research interests is to examine coexisting conditions for participants diagnosed with psychiatric disorders,” noted study author and lead researcher Renato Polimanti, an associate professor of psychiatry educating at the Yale School of Medicine. “
In order to conduct their investigation, the investigators assessed self- report measures from the Yale-Penn cohort, which has been specifically recruited to investigate addiction spectra. Total 8,300 participants were selected for the study; 1,660 participants were identified with antisocial personality disorder and 6,640 participants who did not have antisocial personality disorder were selected as control participants.
Like any good control participants, these subjects were chosen because they were the same age, sex, and race/ethnicity as members of the antisocial personality disorder group.