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JAMA. 1973;225(8):988.

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General opinion holds that alcoholism is the most prevalent form of drug dependence in the United States and that its incidence is increasing. Women alcoholics have attracted special interest among students of the problems of alcoholism, notably for the purpose of defining differences from male counterparts. Belfer et al¹ cite other studies that show, for one thing, that women have a greater tendency to drink secretly and in the privacy of the home. For that reason, the incidence of alcoholism among women leads to differences of opinion depending largely on perspective. A tour of a "skid row" in any large city demonstrates a great preponderance of afflicted men, and a similar sex dissimilarity is evident in records of alcoholics admitted to mental institutions.

Belfer and his colleagues studied 34 acknowledged alcoholic women, comparing them to ten nonalcoholic women who accompanied their alcoholic husbands to a clinic. The authors found . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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