Drug and alcohol abuse by bulimic women and their families
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (12) , 1604-1606
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.12.1604
Abstract
The author studied patterns of drug and alcohol abuse in 35 bulimic women, 35 healthy control subjects, and their first- and second-degree relatives. The bulimic women and their families had significantly higher rates of substance abuse disorders.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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