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Psychiatric Symptomatology in Crack Cocaine Abusers
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Psychiatric Symptomatology in Crack Cocaine Abusers

ROBERT Sterling, EDWARD Gottheil, STEPHEN Weinstein and DANA Shannon
The journal of nervous and mental disease, v 182(10), pp 564-564
Oct 1994
PMID: 7931204

Abstract

Many substance abusers present with elevated scores on self-report measures of psychopathological symptoms. We decided to examine this in a sample of 194 crack cocaine abusers. Results indicated that these individuals reported significantly greater psychopatholgical distress than manual-provided norms, and that this distress was not related to recency of cocaine use. Rank order correlation suggests that a pattern of scores specific to cocaine abusers may exist. Finally, while intake scores of psychopathological distress did not predict treatment retention/outcome, those successfully completing 12 weeks of outpatient treatment were both cocaine abstinent and less psychiatricaally distressed.

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