title: The Personality Assessment Inventory Drug Problems Scale: a validity analysis.
abstract: An analysis of the relationship among the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991, 1996) Drug Problems (DRG) scale scores, the Addiction Severity Index (ASI; McLellan et al., 1992) scores, and urine toxicology reports revealed that the PAI Drug Problem scale scores of 100 substance-using and substance-abusing men and women were distributed in a manner that was in agreement with the guidelines suggested by Morey (1991, 1996) in the PAI manual. There were significant correlations among the PAI DRG scale and the ASI scales related to frequency of use, negative consequences of use, and need and desire for treatment. Overall, higher scores did reflect both more serious involvements with drug use and more serious problems as a consequence of their involvement.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of the Biology of the Addictive Diseases, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021-6399, USA. kellogs@mail.rockefeller.edu
authors.forename: Scott H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kellogg
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.forename: Rosemary P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Schluger
authors.forename: Pauline F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: McHugh
authors.forename: Kelly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: McClary
authors.forename: Mary Jeanne
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kreek
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008691:Methadone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009519:New York City; D009293:Opioid-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D008691:Methadone