ABSTRACT
Until recently, the majority of studies on antisociality in substance abusers have focused not on psychopathy as conceptualized by Cleckley and operationalized by Hare, but on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual o f Mental Disorders (DSM) measures of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD; Alterman, Rutherford, Cacciola, McKay, & Woody, 1996; Alter man, Rutherford, Cacciola, McKay, & Boardman, 1997; Brooner, Schmidt, Felch, & Bigelow, 1992; Cottier, Price, Comptom, & Mager, 1995). Studies on the relationship of psychopathy and substance abuse have mainly been conducted with male offenders and are limited in number. Some of these studies measured psychopathy with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPl; Dush & Keen, 1995; Rogers & Bagby, 1994) or other measures of psychopathy (Fishbein & Reuland, 1994). These studies do not necessarily include truly psychopathic individuals, how ever, because measures of psychopathy such as the MMPI typically have strong correlations with antisocial behaviors but weak correlations with the personality traits associated with psychopathy (see chap. 3).
