Association between personality traits and substance use in Spanish adolescents.

Substance use is considered one of the most frequent risk behaviors during adolescence. Personality factors are linked to consumption during adolescence. Although there are studies on personality and consumption among Spanish adolescents, some outcomes are contradictory, and more studies including larger samples and using validated measures are needed.

Predictors of retention in a drug-free unit/substance abuse treatment in prison.

The high rate of dropout from treatment programs is a recurring problem in the field of drug dependence. The purpose of this study was to identify the predictors of retention in a prison-based drug-free unit (DFU). The relationships among subscales of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) as well as motivation and personality profiles and length of stay in a DFU, of 57 prisoners admitted for the first time to the program were analyzed.

[Need for the assessment of dual diagnosis in prisons].

Introduction: Data show that 92.5% of prison inmates report drug or alcohol use. In spite of this, only 2% of dual diagnosis research has been carried out in the prison context.