[A study of psychiatric comorbidity in alcohol dependence]

We study the existence of associated psychiatric disorders in a sample of 161 alcohol dependent out-patients. 75% of them had suffered from some kind of psychiatric disorder and 66% were still suffering from the associated disorder at the moment of the evaluation. The most frequent associated disorders were affective disorders, personality disorders and other drug related disorders. Women as a whole did not have more psychiatric disorders than men, but affective and personality disorders were more frequent in women. 43.5% of the patients had suffered from a psychiatric disorder before they became alcohol dependent.