Individual differences among cocaine users

• Published in: Addictive behaviors Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 641 - 652
• Main Authors: Gunnarsdóttir, E.Dı́anna, Pingitore, Regina A, Spring, Bonnie J, Konopka, Lukasz M, Crayton, John W, Milo, Tom, Shirazi, Parvez
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2000; New York, NY Elsevier; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Addictive behaviors; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Affect - drug effects; Aged; Anxiety - diagnosis; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - drug effects; Brain - metabolism; Cerebrovascular Circulation; Cocaine; Cocaine - pharmacology; Cocaine user; Cocaine-Related Disorders - complications; Depression - diagnosis; Differences; Drug addiction; Drug use; Exploratory Behavior - drug effects; Frontal Lobe - blood supply; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Motivation; Motivation for drug use; Personality; Personality Disorders - complications; Personality Disorders - diagnosis; Personality Inventory; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Self Medication; Severity of Illness Index; Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Cocaine user; Motivation for drug use; Self-medication; Human; Abuse; Psychotropic; Dysphoria; Use; Male; Personality; Sensation seeking; Self prescription; Ester; Mood; Motivation; Sociodemographic factor; Interindividual comparison; Cocaine; Drug of abuse

The present study examined whether individual differences in personality could differentiate two types of cocaine users. We hypothesized that self-medicators (SM) use cocaine as a way to alleviate their dysphoric moods, whereas sensation seekers (SS), in contrast, use cocaine primarily to engender p...