Reversal of dexamethasone suppression test nonsuppression in alcohol abusers
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 140 (3), 353-354
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.3.353
Abstract
Of 75 detoxified alcohol-abusing inpatients given the dexamethasone suppression test (DST), 13 demonstrated nonsuppression and returned to normal suppression after 4 more wk of abstinence. Interpreting nonsuppression in alcohol abusers as indicating major depression without a significant period of abstinence is questioned.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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