Self-induced water intoxication and alcohol abuse
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 146 (1) , 102-103
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.1.102
Abstract
According to Feighner criteria, alcohol abuse was significantly more common among 17 schizophrenic male inpatients with self-induced water intoxication than among 17 matched schizophrenic control inpatients. The alcohol abuse had begun 8-22 years before the diagnosis of water intoxication.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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