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Abstract

To assess the association of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) to the   development/manifestation of substance use disorder among Substance Users and non-Substance Users in Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Kaduna. All the 120 participants were patients on admission at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital (FNPH), Barnawa, Kaduna. Half (50%) of the participants were recruited among residents undergoing treatment for substance use disorder in the Drug, Alcohol, Treatment, Education and Rehabilitation (DATER) unit of the Hospital. While the remaining half (50%) of the respondents were recruited from the male and female wards of the same hospital and they were non-substance use disorder patients. Data was collected from the participants using socio-demographic questionnaire and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) to ascertain the presence of antisocial personality disorder trait. Majority of the participants were males 72.5%, while 27.5% were females. There is higher antisocial personality disorder trait mean score among substance use disorder participants compared to respondents who do not use substance. This difference is statistically significant (t = 3.56; p< .01). Also, t test analysis performed on the data showed that there was a significant main effect of antisocial personality, t (118) = -3.56 p< 0.01. The overall findings in this study lend support to the hypothesis, that antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is an associated precursor to the development/manifestation of substance dependence problems among substance use dependent patients (SUDs).