title: Depression and substance abuse in handicapped young men.
abstract: A group of 42 young men with self-reported handicaps was compared with a group of 991 demographically similar nonhandicapped men. The research instrument was a highly structured questionnaire that elicited information about alcohol and drug use and other psychopathology in the subjects and their families. The results revealed that the handicapped men had more alcohol-related problems, were more likely to have used drugs, and had more instances of depression requiring mental health care. The family histories revealed more alcohol-related problems in the mothers and more drug use in the fathers of the handicapped men than in the control families.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires