Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appellant was entitled to an invalidity pension under disability insurance law
Decisão extraída
No invalidity pension was due because the substance dependence and related attention problems did not amount to invalidating health impairment, and the somatic and psychiatric findings did not establish a compensable loss of earning capacity.
Fundamentação extraída
The Court held that the lower court was not manifestly mistaken in preferring the overall medical record: the somatic conditions did not cause work incapacity, the psychiatric findings were not severe comorbidities, and the attention deficits linked to substance use were reversible through abstinence. Drug dependence as such was therefore not invalidating.