Does heroin addiction makes temperamental changes?
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Background Investigation of specific personality traits is still in focus of modern psychiatry for years. The target usually pursues identification of those personality traits, described as a predisposition of addiction. But the question of fowl and egg is still open: are these traits are predispositions or they are consequences of Heroin personality change. Based on “mathematical” admission that temperamental traits describe an unchangeable basic concept we verify our hypothesis over addicted population.
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