Personality-related factors among incarcerated recidivist drug dealers: A path analysis.

Background: Although drug trafficking is one of the most prevalent crimes around the world, drug dealers used to be a hard-to-reach population far away from attention by public health programmes. Decisions to participate in such instrumental crimes, however, are based on external and internal factors that could be investigated and perhaps modified.

Aim: To identify drug use problems and personality factors consistently related to the drug trafficking recidivism among incarcerated drug dealers.