Severity factors associated with borderline personality disorder among misusers in an outpatient sample in Spain.

Abstract

The comorbidity between substance-use disorders and borderline personality disorder (SUD-BPD) with other psychiatric disorders has been little studied. A total of 937 drug-dependent patients were evaluated using semistructured interviews and 13.7% were SUD-BPD patients. After multivariate analysis, gender, Affective Disorder (OR 2.59), Anxiety Disorder (OR 1.90), Eating Disorders (OR 4.29), Cocaine (OR 2.16), benzodiazepine dependence (OR 1.90), early age of onset of drug consumption (OR 0.94), and dependent (OR 4.04), paranoid (OR 3.70) and antisocial personality disorders (OR 3.46) were associated with SUD-BPD. Several psychiatric comorbidities are the norm in SUD-BPD patients; therefore these patients are a challenge for clinicians.

• Authors: Carmen Barral, Constanza Daigre, Diana Bachiller, Natalia Calvo, Elena Ros-Cucurull, Beatriz Gancedo, Lara Grau-López, Marc Ferrer, Miguel Casas, Carlos Roncero
• Journal: Journal of addictive diseases (J Addict Dis) 2017 Apr-Jun Vol. 36 Issue 2 Pg. 93-96 ISSN: 1545-0848 [Electronic] England
• PMID: 28001490 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Borderline Personality Disorder (epidemiology)
• Comorbidity
• Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry) (statistics & numerical data)
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Mental Disorders (epidemiology)
• Outpatients
• Risk Factors
• Spain (epidemiology)
• Substance-Related Disorders (epidemiology)
• Young Adult