Neurotic disorders

Characteristics of young offenders with mental disorders ....................................................................................................
the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test Tables 9.1 and 9.2. Although there appear to be
(AUDIT). Hazardous drinking was defined as a some differences between those with and without a
score of 8 or more on the AUDIT questions. For personality disorder with respect to some of the
some analyses, this group was subdivided into two: characteristics considered, the base for those with
those scoring 8 to 15 and those reporting very no personality disorder is too low to enable the
heavy drinking and scoring 16 or above, differences between those with and without
personality disorder to reach statistical significance.
However, it is apparent that young offenders who
912.5 Orug dependence classified themselves as white were more likely than
those who classed themselves as black to be
The initial interview contained questions to assessed as having antisocial personality disorder,
establish dependence on cannabis, opiates (heroin with or without other types of personality disorder.
and non-prescribed methadone) and stimulants In contrast the 'other only' personality disorder
(amphetamines, crack and cocaine powder) in the group contained a relatively high proportion of
year before coming to prison as described in young offenders who classed themselves as black.
Chapter 9. For the analyses in this section of the (Tables 9.1 and 9.2)
report, thosewith drug dependence were divided
into four groups based on the type of drugs on
which they reported dependence: 9.4 Characteristics of those with significant
neurotic symptoms
- cannabis only - dependent on cannabis but not
opiates or stimulants The characteristics of those with significant
- stimulants - dependent on stimulants but not neurotic symptoms (CIS-R score of 12 and above)
opiates compared to those without are shown in Tables 9.3
- opiates and stimulants - dependent on both and 9.4. Male remand young offenders with
opiates and stimulants significant neurotic symptoms were less likely to be
- opiates- dependent on opiates but not single than those with CIS-R scores below 12 (66%
stimulants, with CIS-R scores of 12 or more compared with
79% of those with lower scores).
Respondents in these last three groups may or may
not have been dependent on cannabis as well. For There were no significant differences among those
multiple logistic regression analyses with drug with and withou t significant neurotic symptoms in
dependence as the dependent variable, those the male sentenced and female young offenders
dependent on any of these drugs were included as sample groups. (Tables 9.3 and 9.4)
drug dependent.
In the remainder of this chapter, the characteristics 9.5 Characteristics of those repoding
of those with each of the four disorders described
hazardous drinking in the year before
above are compared to those without the disorder, coming to prison
It should be remembered that some of the
.- differences seen will be inter-related. Male remand and sentenced young offenders who
Characteristics are listed in the order they appear in reported hazardous drinking before coming to
the tables rather than in order of significance, prison compared with those who did not were
more likely to be White (86% and 87% compared
with 62% and 65% respectively).
9.3 Characteristics of those with personality
disorder The small number of women in the female group
means most of the differences between those who
Thosewith evidence of a personality disorder are reported hazardous drinking and those who did
compared with those without on a number of key not do not reach statistical significance.
socio-demographic and custodial characteristics in (Tables 9.5 and 9.6)
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