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There is good scientific evidence that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD is both a predictor and a comorbidity of addictive disorders in adulthood.
These associations not only focus on substance-related addictions but also on behavioral addictions like gambling disorder and Internet use disorder IUD. Yet, there is a need to further understand the connections between both disorders to derive implications for specific treatment and prevention.
This is especially the case in adult clinical populations where little is known about these relations so far. This study was meant to further investigate this issue in more detail based on the general hypothesis that there is a decisive intersection of psychopathology and etiology between IUD and ADHD.
Two caseβcontrol samples were examined at a university hospital. Furthermore, ADHD symptoms were positively associated with media use times and symptoms of Internet addiction in both samples.
