Elsevier, Journal of Affective Disorders, (179), p. 156-160
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2015.03.046
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Recent celebrity deaths have been widely reported in the media and turned the public attention to the coexistence of mood, psychiatric and substance-abuse disorders. These tragic and untimely deaths motivated us to examine the scientific and clinical data, including our own work in this area. The self-medication hypothesis states that individuals with psychiatric illness tend to use heroin to alleviate their symptoms. This study examined the correlations between heroin use, mood and psychiatric disorders, and their chronology in the context of dual diagnosis.