Does Marital Status Predict Long-Term Drinking? Five-Year Observations of Dependent and Problem Drinkers

Journal of Studies on Alcohol

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-265

  Matzger, Helen ^a,b   Delucchi, Kevin ^a   Weisner, Constance ^a,c   Ammon, Lyndsay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

EID: 2342584740     PISSN: 0096882X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15288/jsa.2004.65.255     Document Type: Review

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