Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:1604-1606
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
Drug and alcohol abuse by bulimic women and their families
CM Bulik
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
The author studied patterns of drug and alcohol abuse in 35 bulimic women,
35 healthy control subjects, and their first- and second-degree relatives.
The bulimic women and their families had significantly higher rates of
substance abuse disorders.