DUIs to Be Excluded as Reason for Diagnosing an Alcohol Use Disorder
The
American Psychiatric Association has decided to exclude a DUI or
underage drinking from the DSM-V, the official APA guide used for
diagnosing alcohol problems.
For many clients, a DUI is the reason that they enter (court-ordered) counseling. However, legal
trouble has not been found to be significantly related to
either alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence (Shmulewitz, Keyes, Beseler,
Aharonovich, Aivadyan, Spivak, & Hasin, 2010).
Removing
the legal trouble criterion will not affect diagnosing severe cases of
Alcohol Use Disorders, but it will reduce severity in some cases.
Removing the legal criterion may altogether eliminate some diagnosis (and stigma) of an alcohol use disorder for individuals mandated to counseling due to a single alcohol-related incident (e.g., a DUI, a case of underage drinking or public drunkenness).
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