Commentary on Degenhardt et al. (2019): Harm to others matters in substance use disorders, and so does discordance between the diagnostic systems

Robin Room^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.
² Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
⁵ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Institute of Medical Science (IMS), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Comment

Robin Room et al. Addiction. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;114(3):553-554.

doi: 10.1111/add.14560. Epub 2019 Feb 6.

Robin Room^{1

2}, Jürgen Rehm^{3

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¹ Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.
² Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
⁵ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Institute of Medical Science (IMS), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: Caseness; ICD-11; conceptualization; culture-specific; dependence; harm to others.

Comment on

Concordance between the diagnostic guidelines for alcohol and cannabis use disorders in the draft ICD-11 and other classification systems: analysis of data from the WHO's World Mental Health Surveys.
Degenhardt L, Bharat C, Bruno R, Glantz MD, Sampson NA, Lago L, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Alonso J, Andrade LH, Bunting B, Caldas-de-Almeida JM, Cia AH, Gureje O, Karam EG, Khalaf M, McGrath JJ, Moskalewicz J, Lee S, Mneimneh Z, Navarro-Mateu F, Sasu CC, Scott K, Torres Y, Poznyak V, Chatterji S, Kessler RC; WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators. Degenhardt L, et al. Addiction. 2019 Mar;114(3):534-552. doi: 10.1111/add.14482. Epub 2018 Dec 9. Addiction. 2019. PMID: 30370636 Free PMC article.