Drug abuse and mental illness: Progress in understanding comorbidity

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 158, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1181-1183

  Volkow, N D ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; COCAINE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; METHAMPHETAMINE;

COMORBIDITY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DYSPHORIA; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SENSITIZATION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MENTAL DISORDERS; METHAMPHETAMINE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE;

EID: 0034884209     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.158.8.1181     Document Type: Editorial

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