WOMEN ALCOHOLICS : ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM MEN ALCOHOLICS ?

Women alcoholics seeking psychiatric help have been increasing steadily over the years. The data on this subgroup however, is limited. Eighteen women alcoholics who presented to us over one year have been compared to twenty-eight men alcoholics who presented to us over one calendar month. Gender dif...

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Autores principales: Selvaraj, V., Suveera, Prasad, Ashok, M.V., Appaya, M.P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584094
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author Selvaraj, V.
Suveera, Prasad
Ashok, M.V.
Appaya, M.P.
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description Women alcoholics seeking psychiatric help have been increasing steadily over the years. The data on this subgroup however, is limited. Eighteen women alcoholics who presented to us over one year have been compared to twenty-eight men alcoholics who presented to us over one calendar month. Gender differences in the functions and effects of problem drinking were found. Men and women alcoholics differed in marital and occupational status, initiating and maintaining factors for drinking, course of alcoholism and alcohol related damage.
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spelling pubmed-29671602011-05-16 WOMEN ALCOHOLICS : ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM MEN ALCOHOLICS ? Selvaraj, V. Suveera, Prasad Ashok, M.V. Appaya, M.P. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Women alcoholics seeking psychiatric help have been increasing steadily over the years. The data on this subgroup however, is limited. Eighteen women alcoholics who presented to us over one year have been compared to twenty-eight men alcoholics who presented to us over one calendar month. Gender differences in the functions and effects of problem drinking were found. Men and women alcoholics differed in marital and occupational status, initiating and maintaining factors for drinking, course of alcoholism and alcohol related damage. Medknow Publications 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC2967160/ /pubmed/21584094 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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WOMEN ALCOHOLICS : ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM MEN ALCOHOLICS ?
title WOMEN ALCOHOLICS : ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM MEN ALCOHOLICS ?
title_full WOMEN ALCOHOLICS : ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM MEN ALCOHOLICS ?
title_fullStr WOMEN ALCOHOLICS : ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM MEN ALCOHOLICS ?
title_full_unstemmed WOMEN ALCOHOLICS : ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM MEN ALCOHOLICS ?
title_short WOMEN ALCOHOLICS : ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM MEN ALCOHOLICS ?
title_sort women alcoholics : are they different from men alcoholics ?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584094
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