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Major Depression in 6050 Former Drinkers

Author(s) -

Deborah S. Hasin,

Bridget F. Grant

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

archives of general psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3636

pISSN - 0003-990X

DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.59.9.794

Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychiatry , major depressive episode , logistic regression , psychology , alcohol dependence , population , alcohol use disorder , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , alcohol , medicine , cognition , environmental health , psychotherapist , macroeconomics , biochemistry , chemistry , economics

The association between alcoholism and major depression in the general population has been explained as misdiagnosed alcohol intoxication and withdrawal effects mistaken for depressive syndromes. To investigate whether this could account for the entire relationship, the association of past alcohol dependence with current major depression (ie, nonoverlapping time frames) was investigated in individuals who no longer drink or who drink very little. We conducted the study using data from the National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey, a representative sample.

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