RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Antisocial Personality and Substance Abuse Disorders
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 187
OP 198
VO 16
IS 2
A1 Collins, James J.
A1 Schlenger, William E.
A1 Jordan, B. Kathleen
YR 1988
UL http://jaapl.org/content/16/2/187.abstract
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.