Mood, alexithymia, dispositional mindfulness, sensitivity to reward and punishment, frontal systems functioning and impulsivity in clients undergoing treatment for substance use disorders

s / Drug and Alcohol Dependence 146 (2015) e118–e201 e189 Results: Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) controlling for age, education, previous serious head injury and gender revealed highly significant differences (p< .0001) between clinical and control groups on all dependent measures. The clinical group scored significantly higher on depression, anxiety, stress, alexithymia, frontal systems dysfunction, reward sensitivity, punishment sensitivity and impulsivity, and lower on dispositional mindfulness, than the control group. Time in treatmentwas significantly correlated only with levels of depression, anxiety and stress, supporting the relative stability of the trait measures. Conclusions: Results are consistent with the notion that substance use disorders are linked to frontal lobe dysfunction and associated traits, although the current findings cannot determine whether such characteristics predated or post-dated disordered substance use. Financial support: This research was funded by a Bond University Vice-Chancellor’s Research Grant. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.09.428 Correlates of drug use problems among substance users presenting in emergency departments: Results of a multi-site study Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos1,2, Jessica A. Dreifuss1,3, Katherine A. McDermott3, Blair A. Parry2, Melissa L. Howell2, Raul N. Mandler4, Michael Bogenschutz5, Roger Weiss1,3 1 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States 2 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States 3 McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States 4 NIDA, Bethesda, MD, United States 5 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM,