Cocaine-induced mood disorder: Prevalence rates and psychiatric symptoms in an outpatient cocaine-dependent sample

This paper attempts to examine and compare prevalence rates and symptom pat terns of DSM substance-incduced and other mood disorders. 243 cocaine-depen dent outpatients with cocaine-induced mood disorder (CIMD) other mood disor ders, or no mood disorder were compared on measures of psychiatric symptoms . prevalence rate for CIMD was 12% at baseline. Introduction of the DSM-IV diagnosis of CIMD did not substantially affect rates of the other depressiv e disorders. Patients with CIMD had symptom severity levels between those o f patients with and without a mood disorder. These findings suggest some va lidity for the new DSM-IV diagnosis of CIMD, but also suggest that it requi res further specification and replication.