Dependence of the formation of the addictive personality on the predisposing factors

During observation of 100 patients with consequences of different types of drug-addictions (heroin, opium, poly-drug, pervitine-ephedrine) a complex o f social and biological factors was analyzed: heredity, premorbid personali ty, somatic diseases, nurture, age of the onset of drug-addiction, duration of drug abuse, asocial behavior. influence of these factors was studied ac cording to the following parameters: alterations of personality; degree of the moral-ethic decline and of the intellectual-mnestic disorders; somatic complications; the presence of the suicidal trends; frequency of self-damag es; a professional level; family interrelations; frequency of the delinquen cies (including conviction). On the basis of the correlation analysis it wa s established that the most significant unfavorable prognostic factors, whi ch had determined a rate of the formation of the addictive personality were the following (in order of the decrease of significance): perinatal pathol ogy; family history of alcoholism, drug-addiction and other mental diseases ; personality deviations in premorbid period; an early age of the onset of drug addiction; a type of the drug; education; alcoholic abuse before the a ddiction; duration of the addiction.