Month: August 2020

ContentAre You Abusing Alcohol and/or Drugs?The Link Between Alcohol Abuse And DepressionAlcohol acts as a depressantContributing Factors Disagreement also exists about whether longer term independent treatment for depressive or anxiety diagnoses is required for the alcoholic person to achieve a normal level of life functioning. Thus, long-term psychiatric treatment does not appear to be required for alcohol-induced psychiatric conditions to be resolved (Brown and Schuckit 1988; Schuckit and Hesselbrock 1994). Schuckit and colleagues have studied the rates of psychiatric disorders in COA’s from a variety of perspectives. In this followup study, although the sons of alcoholics were three times more likely to develop alcohol abuse or dependence, they showed no higher rates of major depressive disorders or major anxiety disorders during the followup period. Alcohol dependence has been shown to…