TY - JOUR
T1 - Comorbid Anxiety Disorder Among Patients With Substance Abuse Disorders
T2 - Risk Factors on Initial Evaluation
AU - Westermeyer, Joseph
AU - Tucker, Phebe
AU - Nugent, Sean
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - The authors sought to determine whether early assessment of newly abstinent alcoholic/addicted patients can help identify those patients at risk for later anxiety disorder (AD). Diagnoses of AD were made after 3 weeks. From a sample of 642 consecutive outpatients and inpatients, 294 were assessed as having only substance‐related disorders (SRD) and 36 had both an SRD and an AD. The remaining 312 patients had other comorbid conditions with SRD. After 3 weeks of abstinence (Time 2), a psychiatrist made a current DSM‐III‐R diagnosis based on all available data. This study revealed that the following characteristics at Time 1 (intake) were associated with diagnosis of an AD at Time 2: female sex, history of panic attacks or suicidal ideation, previous outpatient care, previous antidepressant or neuroleptic medication, and higher scores on most of the self‐rated scales and all of the psychiatric scales. 1995 American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
AB - The authors sought to determine whether early assessment of newly abstinent alcoholic/addicted patients can help identify those patients at risk for later anxiety disorder (AD). Diagnoses of AD were made after 3 weeks. From a sample of 642 consecutive outpatients and inpatients, 294 were assessed as having only substance‐related disorders (SRD) and 36 had both an SRD and an AD. The remaining 312 patients had other comorbid conditions with SRD. After 3 weeks of abstinence (Time 2), a psychiatrist made a current DSM‐III‐R diagnosis based on all available data. This study revealed that the following characteristics at Time 1 (intake) were associated with diagnosis of an AD at Time 2: female sex, history of panic attacks or suicidal ideation, previous outpatient care, previous antidepressant or neuroleptic medication, and higher scores on most of the self‐rated scales and all of the psychiatric scales. 1995 American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1995.tb00440.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1995.tb00440.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0029016940
SN - 1055-0496
VL - 4
SP - 97
EP - 106
JO - The American Journal on Addictions
JF - The American Journal on Addictions
IS - 2
ER -
