%0 Journal Article
%T Treatment of drug addiction and psychopathology: A field study
%A Manuel Isorna
%A Luis Fernandez-Rios
%A Antonio Souto
%J European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
%D 2010
%I Sociedad Espa?ola de Psicologia Jur¨ªdica y Forense
%X Field study to assess the concurrence of the psychopathology of drug addiction, and to evaluate the efficacy of pharmacological treatment versus drug-free treatments for the psychopathology of drug addiction. A total of 261 patients treated for drug addiction, 131 on a drug-free treatment and the remaining 130 patients received a drug regime, of which 113 were, according to the Prochaska and Decrement¡¯s Transtheorical Model, in a initial phase of the treatment (from 15 days to 6 months of treatment) and 148 in a maintenance phase in drug treatment (> 6 months), were psychopathologically assessed using the SCL-90-R (Derogatis, 2002). A field study with a 2 X 2 design (treatment: drug-free vs. drug-regime) and (treatment phase: initial phase vs. maintenance in drug treatment) was carried out. The results support the hypothesis of a dual diagnosis, that is, the comorbidity of psychopathology and drug addiction. On the whole, treatment for drug addiction had a significant impact on reducing associated psychopathology. Finally, the results are discussed in the light of the implications for the treatment of drug addiction.
%K Psychopathology
%K Drug addiction
%K Drug-free programme
%K Antagonists
%K agonists
%K Dual diagnosis.
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