Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 84, Issue 1 , Pages 122-132 , 1 September 2006

Lifetime psychiatric comorbidity of alcohol dependence and bulimia nervosa in women

  • Alexis E. Duncan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
    • Doctoral Program in Public Health Studies, Saint Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, MO, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid, Box 8134, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States. Tel.: +1 314 286 2210; fax: +1 314 286 2213.
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  • Rosalind J. Neuman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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  • John R. Kramer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, United States
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  • Samuel Kuperman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, United States
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  • Victor M. Hesselbrock

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, United States
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  • Kathleen Keenan Bucholz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States

Received 19 September 2005 ,Revised 5 January 2006 ,Accepted 11 January 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2006.01.005

Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 84, Issue 1 , Pages 122-132 , 1 September 2006

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