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38815084
TITLE
Differential etiologic associations of heroin use and prescription opioid misuse with psychopathology.
ABSTRACT
Patterns of association with externalizing and internalizing features differ across heroin use and prescription opioid misuse (POM). The present study examined whether heroin use and POM display differential etiologic overlap with symptoms of conduct disorder (CD), adult antisocial behavior (AAB), and major depressive episodes (MDEs), how aggregating heroin use and POM into a single phenotype may bias results, and explored potential sex differences. Seven thousand one hundred and sixty-four individual twins from the Australian Twin Registry (ATR; 59.81% female; = 30.58 years) reported lifetime heroin use, POM, CD symptoms, AABs, and MDE symptoms within a semi-structured interview. Biometric models decomposed phenotypic variance and covariance into additive genetic, common environmental, and unique environmental effects. The proportion of variance in heroin use attributable to factors shared with CD, AAB, and MDE, respectively, was 41%, 41%, and 0% for men and 26%, 19%, and 42% for women; for POM, the proportions were 33%, 35%, and 20% for men and 15%, 9%, and 13% for women. CD and AAB were more strongly genetically correlated with heroin use among women and with POM among men. MDE was more strongly genetically correlated with POM than with heroin use among men, but more strongly genetically correlated with heroin use than with POM among women. Analyses using an aggregate opioid (mis)use variable were biased toward POM, which was the more prevalent phenotype. Magnitude and source of etiologic influence may differ across forms of opioid (mis)use and sex. Disaggregating heroin use and POM in future opioid research may be warranted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
DATE PUBLISHED
2024 Jul
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
medline 2024/06/20 18:43
pubmed 2024/05/30 18:43
entrez 2024/05/30 14:13
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Dash GF Dash Genevieve F GF Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri.
Gizer IR Gizer Ian R IR Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri.
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG QIMR Berghofer.
Slutske WS Slutske Wendy S WS Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin.
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 133
ISSUE: 5
TITLE: Journal of psychopathology and clinical science
ISOABBREVIATION: J Psychopathol Clin Sci
YEAR: 2024
MONTH: Jul
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CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 2769-755X
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Humans
Male
Female
Adult
Heroin Dependence psychology
Australia epidemiology
Opioid-Related Disorders psychology
Prescription Drug Misuse statistics & numerical data
Antisocial Personality Disorder chemically induced
Depressive Disorder, Major etiology
Registries etiology
Sex Factors etiology
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's