Evaluating depression in alcoholics.
Psychiatry Res
; 17(2): 105-9, 1986 Feb.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-3961028
ABSTRACT
The persistence of untreated depression was evaluated in 49 severely depressed alcoholics. After 2 weeks of sobriety, 80% of patients with initial major depression by Research Diagnostic Criteria were no longer depressed. These patients improved without antidepressant medications, suggesting the need for a 2-week period of sobriety before psychopharmacotherapy for depression is instituted. Many severe depressions in actively drinking or recently sober alcoholics may represent alcohol-induced organic affective syndromes which, unlike major depressive illness, remit spontaneously with sobriety.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtorno Depressivo
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Alcoolismo
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1986
Tipo de documento:
Article