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Chronic solvent abuse. 2. Relationship with depression
Author(s) -
ZUR JUDITH,
YULE WILLIAM
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1990.tb00636.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychiatry , substance abuse , psychology , clinical psychology , alcohol abuse , referral , chronic depression , medicine , family medicine , cognition , economics , macroeconomics
Summary Twelve adolescent males with a history of chronic solvent abuse were compared with 12 delinquent controls on a structured interview concerning their history of solvent abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, and on a self‐report inventory of depression. Solvent abusers had histories of severe social and emotional deprivation, and reported higher rates of depression. This was particularly true of the most chronic abusers of solvents. These findings do not reflect any referral bias and it is concluded that the association between chronic solvent abuse and depression is a real one. Psychological, social work and psychiatric services need to take the presentation of chronic solvent abuse more seriously.