Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 405-416 , November 2005

The AUDIT-C: screening for alcohol use disorders and risk drinking in the presence of other psychiatric disorders

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☆ The study on which this article is based, the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, is sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, with supplemental support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

PII: S0010-440X(05)00018-0

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.01.006

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 405-416 , November 2005

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