Symptom profiles of 157 male and 54 female heroin addicts based on Brief
Psychiatric Rating Scale scores were compared with normative data for 6,000
psychiatric patients by using previously described schizo- depressive and
coping-resignation contrast functions. Diagnostic types found among the
addicts were as follows: anxious-depressive features, 35.1%;
undifferentiated syndromes, 26.5%; hostile-depressive features, 16.6%;
retarded depressive features, 9.5%; hostile suspicious traits, 6.6%; and
blunted affect without significant depressive features, 5.7%. None of the
addicts showed levels of thought disturbance comparable to those found in
the psychiatric patients.Abstract Teaser