Co-occurring mental health and alcohol misuse: Dual disorder symptoms in combat injured veterans

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 392-398

  Heltemes, Kevin J ^a   Clouser, Mary C ^a   MacGregor, Andrew J ^a   Norman, Sonya B ^b   Galarneau, Michael R ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol misuse; Depression; Dual disorder; PTSD; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL MISUSE; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL DISORDER SYMPTOM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; NIGHTMARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; VETERAN; ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH STATUS; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889097309     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: 18736327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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