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K Schooff

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PubMed1979

A heroin addiction scale for the MMPI: effectiveness in differential diagnosis in a psychiatric setting.

This study examined the discriminative utility of the Cavior Heroin Addiction Scale (HE) in separating samples of male heroin addict, alcoholic, and polydrug abuser samples from psychiatric control samples matched on sex, age, race, and education level. Heroin addicts were the only substance abuser samples that did not differentiate from its control sample. Heroin addicts obtained higher mean HE values than did the alcoholics although the polydrug abusers obtained higher mean HE values than both alcoholics and heroin addicts. HE was found to be less successful in separating these samples than was the MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale. This poorer performance is related to HE's confounding systematic relation to subject age and race, or to differences in scale construction methodology.

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PubMed1978

Organic impairment in polydrug users: risk factors.

In a national collaborative study to assess the neuropsychological status of 151 polydrug users, the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery showed deficits in 37% two to three weeks after they entered treatment and in 34% at three-month follow-up. Comparative rates for a group of psychiatric patients were 26% and 27%, and for nonpatients, 8% and 4%. Extensive and intensive use of CNS depressants and opiates correlated positively with neuropsychological deficit. Older, less-educated subjects with adverse medical or developmental histories were more likely to show polydrug-related organic impairment. Although there is some evidence that such impairment is reversible, the condition appears to be of at least intermediate duration and may be long lasting.

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