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Towards a unitary perspective between post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder. Heroin use disorder as case study.
Compr Psychiatry
July 2014
Vincent P. Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Department of Neurosciences, Santa Chiara University Hospital, University of Pisa, Italy, EU; Association for the Application of Neuroscientific Knowledge to Social Aims (AU-CNS), Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy, EU; G. De Lisio Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Pisa, Italy, EU. Electronic address:
Background: Genetic, neurobiological, environmental and psychosocial mechanisms have received considerable attention in exploring the mechanisms that underlie comorbid PTSD and SUD. PTSD and SUD are not necessarily linked by a causal relationship, as the self-medication hypothesis had supposed. They might, in fact, both be caused by a third factor that predisposes these subjects to develop the two disorders (so allowing a unitary perspective).
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