A Prospective Twelve-Year Follow-up of Alcoholic Women: A Prognostic Scale for Long-term Outcome (IN: Problems of Drug Dependence 1984: National Institute on Drug Abuse Research: Monograph Series 55)

Year: 1984 Source: Annual Scientific Meeting of the Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc. (46th : 1984). 7p. SIEC No: 19870743

A study examining the long-term course of alcoholism in women who were systematically interviewed & diagnosed according to rigorous criteria at index & identifying pre-treatment characteristics associated with various outcomes 12 years after hospitalization is described. The first multivariate scale to predict prognosis in alcoholic women is presented. 7 Refs. (LH)

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Smith E M~~Cloninger C R