Alcohol craving and the dimensionality of alcohol disorders
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Alcohol craving and the dimensionality of alcohol disorders.
BACKGROUND ICD-10 includes a craving criterion for alcohol dependence while DSM-IV does not. Little is known about whether craving fits with or improves the DSM-IV criteria set for alcohol-use disorders. METHOD Data were derived from current drinkers (n=18 352) in the 1991-1992 National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey (NLAES), a nationally representative survey of US adults >17 year...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0033-2917,1469-8978
DOI: 10.1017/s003329171000053x