Substance abuse, comorbidity, and sensation seeking: Gender differences

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 384-392

  Scourfield, Jane ^a   Stevens, Denise E ^a   Merikangas, Kathleen R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 0029824950     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-440X(96)90021-8     Document Type: Article

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