PSYCHOEMOTIONAL DISTURBANCES AND A TENDENCY TOWARD CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, COMORBID DRUG DEPENDENCE
The paper presents the survey data of two groups of users of psychoactive substances, “tasters” and clinical drug addicts, in the context of tendency to deviant behavior. The analysis of premorbid personality characteristics. It is shown that personality disorders define criminal acts mainly in adolescents. Drug users with experience of criminal behavior is caused by situational affective lability associated with compulsive attraction to drugs, and personality disorders go by the wayside and masked chronic stress condition associated with substance abuse. The most common deviation in drug addicts was suicidal behavior.