How important is treatment? One-year outcomes of treated and untreated alcohol-dependent individuals

Addiction

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 901-911

  Weisner, Constance ^a   Matzger, Helen ^a   Kaskutas, Lee Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstinence; Dependence; Natural recovery; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038391177     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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