Self-induced water intoxication and alcohol abuse



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Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:102-103
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association

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Self-induced water intoxication and alcohol abuse

TL Ripley, RC Millson and AB Koczapski
Riverview Hospital, Port Coquitlam, B.C., Canada.

According to Feighner criteria, alcohol abuse was significantly more common among 17 schizophrenic male inpatients with self-induced water intoxication than among 17 matched schizophrenic control inpatients. The alcohol abuse had begun 8-22 years before the diagnosis of water intoxication.

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