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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Tests of Causal Links Between Alcohol Abuse or Dependence and Major Depression
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009;66(3):260-266.


The findings suggest that the associations between AAD and MD were best explained by a causal model in which problems with alcohol led to increased risk of MD as opposed to a self-medication model in which MD led to increased risk of AAD.




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