How would you label your own drinking pattern overall? An evaluation of answers provided by 181 high functioning middle-aged men

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 767-772

  Daeppen, Jean Bernard ^a,b   Smith, Tom L ^a   Schuckit, Marc A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0032856783     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/34.5.767     Document Type: Article

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