Negative Mood-related Drinking May Mean Vulnerability For Major Depression And Alcohol Dependence

Major depression and alcohol dependence are strongly connected to one another. New research looks at how mood-related drinking may explain the overlapping familial risk for MD and AD. Drinking related to mood that is based on negative feelings accounted for the majority of the overlapping risk for both MD and AD that is due to genetic and familial environmental factors.

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