Clinico-dynamic features of psychopathological disorders at heroin addiction young age

There were studied 120 patients with heroin addiction at the age of 17 to 26 years. Prescription of heroin abuse at the time of initial examination ranged from 8 months to 5 years. The greatest number of patients made those receiving the drug from 1 to 3 years. It is established that the premorbid personality characteristics in patients with heroin addiction affect the formation of remission and determine the extent and nature of medico-social consequences of the disease. Anxieties are the leading clinical and dynamic psychopathology in heroin addiction. They play an important role in the syndrome of pathological craving for psychoactive substances and determine the prognosis of the disease.