PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Collins, James J.
AU  - Schlenger, William E.
AU  - Jordan, B. Kathleen
TI  - Antisocial Personality and Substance Abuse Disorders
DP  - 1988 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 187--198
VI  - 16
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/16/2/187.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/16/2/187.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1988 Jun 01; 16
AB  - The relationship between antisocial personality (ASP) disorder and drug and alcohol disorders was examined using data from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) gathered on a sample of 1,149 male prison inmates. The results of a linear canonical discriminant function analysis indicate differences among those with a DIS/ASP diagnosis that are related to the presence or absence of an accompanying substance abuse diagnosis: whites are more likely than nonwhites to receive the ASP diagnosis with a substance abuse diagnosis, and substance abuse appears to magnify ASP symptomatology. Diagnostic and clinical implications of findings are discussed.