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Friday, February 2, 2007

ROAD TO ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE: A COMMENTARY ON SARTOR ET AL. (2007)

ROAD TO ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE: A COMMENTARY ON SARTOR ET AL. (2007)

Addiction Volume 102 Issue 2 Page 185 - February 2007


[Friday, February 2, 2007 The role of childhood risk factors in initiation of alcohol use and progression to alcohol dependence ]



Sartor et al.'s [1] paper highlights several important considerations that are central to understanding the etiology of alcohol dependence in a developmental context. Two of these are central to an informed analysis of the relationship between risk factors and the unfolding of dependence: identifying informative milestones and distinguishing the development of disorder from the development of the person.
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