Familial Transmission of Substance Use Disorders
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- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 55 (11) , 973-979
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.55.11.973
Abstract
THE FAMILIAL aggregation of alcoholism has been well established.1,2 Although the results of numerous studies suggest that drug abuse is familial, there is a lack of adequate evidence from studies that use contemporary family study methods, including comparable control probands and direct interviews of relatives, in investigating the familial patterns of drug abuse.3-14Keywords
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