TREATMENT UTILIZATION AND PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION AMONG DRUG-ABUSERSIN SWEDEN

Treatment utilization and personality organization in a case-funding s ample of 1824 drug abusers in the greater Stockholm area were assessed by using a standardized questionnaire, with the client's contact pers ons as informants. Level of personality organization was strongly asso ciated, negatively, with the number of concurrent treatment contacts, problems of coordination between concurrent treatment agents, and was positively correlated with agreement between treatment agents in the a ssignment of principal treatment responsibility and their opinions abo ut the appropriateness of this assignment. Psychiatric ICD-9 diagnosis was not associated with any of these variables. Copyright (C) 1996 El sevier Science Inc.