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. 1980 Jul;41(7):672-81.
doi: 10.15288/jsa.1980.41.672.

Prevalence and psychiatric heterogeneity of alcoholism in a United States urban community

M M Weissman, J K Myers, P S Harding

Prevalence and psychiatric heterogeneity of alcoholism in a United States urban community

M M Weissman et al. J Stud Alcohol. 1980 Jul.

Abstract

Current point and lifetime prevalence rates of alcoholism in a sample of New Haven, Connecticut, residents were 2.6 and 6.7 per 100, respectively. Alcoholism was more prevalent in men, Nonwhites, Protestants, lower social classes and the unmarried. Two-thirds of the alcoholics had at least one psychiatric disorder than alcoholism.

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