Collins J J, Schlenger W E, Jordan B K
Center for Social Research and Policy Analysis, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1988;16(2):187-98.
The relationship between antisocial personality (ASP) disorder and drug and alcohol disorders was examined using data from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) gathered on a sample of 1,149 male prison inmates. The results of a linear canonical discriminant function analysis indicate differences among those with a DIS/ASP diagnosis that are related to the presence or absence of an accompanying substance abuse diagnosis: whites are more likely than nonwhites to receive the ASP diagnosis with a substance abuse diagnosis, and substance abuse appears to magnify ASP symptomatology. Diagnostic and clinical implications of findings are discussed.
