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Post traumatic stress disorder among alcohol abuse/dependence inpatients

Panagiotis Theodoropoulos, Thomas Paparrigopoulos, Elias Tzavellas and Ioannis Liappas

from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 2nd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour
Thessaloniki, Greece. 17–20 November 2005

Annals of General Psychiatry 2006, 5(Suppl 1):S216doi:10.1186/1744-859X-5-S1-S216

Alcohol abuse

Sam Sam   (30 September 2008)  Business

Alcohol abuse, as described in the DSM-IV, is a psychiatric diagnosis describing the use of alcoholic beverages despite negative consequences. It is differentiated from alcohol dependence by the lack of symptoms such as tolerance and withdrawal.

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Sam

Alcohol Addiction Treatment

Competing interests

None declared

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