Are there empirically supported and clinically useful subtypes of alcohol dependence?

Addiction

Volumn 101, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 97-103

  Hesselbrock, Victor M ^a   Hesselbrock, Michie N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Classification; Diagnosis; Subtypes

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746874772     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01596.x     Document Type: Review

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