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Scientific article
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Turner, S., Mota, N., Bolton, J., & Sareen, J. (2018). Self‐medication with alcohol or drugs for mood and anxiety disorders: A narrative review of the epidemiological literature. Depression and anxiety, 35(9), 851-860.
Substance use is one way that people deal with the difficult symptoms present in mood and anxiety disorders. As people become more reliant on the effects of the substances to relieve distress the use can develop into dependence. Self‐medication has been proposed as a reason for the high rates of comorbidity between mood and anxiety disorders and substance use disorders.
A recent review, published in the Journal of Depression and Anxiety, has examined the current literature on the prevalence of substance use as self-medication, the comorbidity between mood and anxiety disorders and substance...