Analysis Of Psychiatric Disorders: The DSM-IV Approach

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“For the most part, the DSM-IV approach to substance use and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, approach both and formatted in a therapeutic approach, that one is primary or independent or substance-induced disorder”( Nunes, & Rounsaville, 2006, pg.89).

Nunes, E. V., & Rounsaville, B. J. (2006). Comorbidity of substance use with depression and other mental disorders: from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) to DSM-V. Addiction,

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