ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2014
Truth or consequences in the diagnosis of substance use disorders.
Article in Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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56 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 98 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Meta-analysis of DSM alcohol use disorder criteria severities: structural consistency is only 'skin deep'.Psychological medicine · 2016Pooled it
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- Methamphetamine Use, Post-Traumatic Stress, and Substance Use Consequences Among American Indians with a Substance Use Problem.Substance use & misuse · 2026Article
- Demographic and socioeconomic factors influencing the adoption of telehealth services for substance use treatment.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Symptoms of problematic alcohol use differ in their genetic associations with comorbid internalizing, externalizing, and neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Reconstructing Psychopathology: A Data-Driven Reorganization of the Symptoms in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- A Hierarchical Model of the Symptom-Level Structure of Psychopathology in Youth.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- "General Addiction Liability" Revisited.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Global trends in the burden of alcohol use disorders in the working-age population from 1990 to 2021 and projections for the next 20 years.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Where does attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder fit in the psychopathology hierarchy? A symptom-focused analysis.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
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- Latent profiles of regulatory flexibility in alcohol use disorder: Associations with delay discounting and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
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Abstract
aimsThis commentary critically evaluates the use of substance-related negative psychosocial and health consequences to define and diagnose alcohol and other substance use disorders.
methodsNarrative review.
resultsThe consequences of substance use cause much suffering and are major public health and economic problems. However, there are a number of conceptual and measurement problems with using consequences as diagnostic criteria for substance disorders. Data indicate that substance-related consequences introduce systematic bias and degrade the validity of diagnostic systems.
conclusionsNegative psychosocial and health consequences of substance use should play a fundamentally reduced role in modern diagnostic systems for, and definitions of, addictive disorders.
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