Preliminary Findings of Patterns of Substance Abuse in Eating Disorder Patients

Abstract

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Dopamine-system genes, childhood abuse, and clinical manifestations in women with Bulimia-spectrum Disorders

“…Whereas some BN sufferers appear to be quite free of major psychopathology, a sizable subgroup displays prominent disturbances of mood (Milos et al, 2003), anxiety (Kaye et al, 2004), substance abuse (Newman and Gold, 1992), and personality (Cassin & von Ranson, 2005;Steiger and Bruce, 2007), as well as comorbid adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (Surman et al, 2006). Such heterogeneity has inspired the belief that, in BN, psychopathological variations correspond to important differences as to etiological processes and, in turn, treatment needs (Westen and Harnden-Fischer, 2001;Steiger and Bruce, 2007;Steiger et al, 2011).…”

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“…Clearly, there are both eating-disordered patients who may also have a substance abuse problem, as well as substance abusers who may also have an eating disorder (Bulik, 1987;Newman & Gold, 1992;Steiger, Leung, Puentes-Neuman, & Gottheil, 1992). Interestingly, the severity of compulsive eating, particularly the frequency of binge-eating episodes, has been shown to be significantly and positively correlated with personality disorder symptomology (Picot & Lilenfeld, 2003).…”

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“…95 Studies of dual diagnosis patients with SUDs and disordered eating have shown that the eating disorder generally preceded the SUD. 96,97,98,99 In a prospective 10-year study of 95 anorexia nervosa patients, Kaye and colleagues found that even when there was no history of SUD initially, at 10-years, 12% of the restrictors and 50% of the binging subtype patients had a new diagnosis of comorbid substance use. 100 …”