Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems
Volume 21, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 61-66

Ethnicity and specific psychopathology of addiction. Comparison between migrant and italian heroin use disorder patients (Article)

Carbone M.G. , Tagliarini C. , Ricci M. , Lupi A.M. , Sarandrea L. , Ceban A. , Casella P. , Maremmani I.*
  • a School of Psychiatry, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Pisa, Italy
  • b School of Psychiatry, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Pisa, Italy
  • c Drug Addiction Unit, Italian NHS, Region of Latium, ASL Roma 1, Rome, Italy
  • d Drug Addiction Unit, Italian NHS, Region of Latium, ASL Roma 1, Rome, Italy
  • e Drug Addiction Unit, Italian NHS, Region of Latium, ASL Roma 1, Rome, Italy, Association for the Application of Neuroscientific Knowledge to Social Aims (AU-CNS), Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy
  • f Drug Addiction Unit, Italian NHS, Region of Latium, ASL Roma 1, Rome, Italy, G. De Lisio Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Pisa, Italy
  • g Drug Addiction Unit, Italian NHS, Region of Latium, ASL Roma 1, Rome, Italy, Vincent P. Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, 2nd Psychiatric Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, University of Pisa, Italy
  • h Vincent P. Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, 2nd Psychiatric Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, University of Pisa, Italy

Abstract

Background: In previous research projects of ours, we have succeeded in defining a psychopathology that appears to be specific to the substance use disorder, while remaining stable and independent of many factors and variables. The primary symptom dimensions considered were: W/BT, SS, S/P, PA, and V/S. Methods: Continuing this line of investigation, we tested the independence of this five-dimension psychopathology from ethnicity by assessing its five dimensions in migrant subjects with Heroin Use Disorder (M-HUD), and comparing them, after matching for age and gender, with Italian HUD patients (IT-HUD), selected from the Addiction PISA-DATASET in a naturalistic, case-control study. Results: Despite the differences regarding educational level, job typology and economic situation, M-HUD and IT-HUD patients showed the same severity and the same predominant typology in the five dimensions we consider specific to SUD. Conclusions: The present study once again shed light on a specific aggregation of psychopathological symptoms in SUD patients, a finding that strengthens the credibility of the five-factor solution. © 2019, Pacini Editore S.p.A.. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Migration process Specific psychopathology Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Heroin Use Disorder (HUD) SCL90

Index Keywords

educational status economic status anxiety disorder human sex difference psychosis violence work heroin dependence controlled study priority journal comparative study mental disease Symptom Checklist 90 migrant male Italian (citizen) female Article worthlessness major clinical study adult naturalistic inquiry age drug dependence treatment diamorphine ethnicity case control study employment DSM-5 Suicide
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ISSN: 15921638
Original Language: English