Risky Drinking Women: Contrasting Therapeutic Approaches

Christina Scheffel Birath^1,2*, Britt Af Klinteberg^3,4,5, Valerie DeMarinis^2,6,7, Sarah Hauke⁸, Jennifer A Smallwood⁸ and Grace Chang^8,9,10

¹Stockholm Centre for Dependency Disorders, Stockholm, Sweden

²Public Mental Health Promotion Research Area, Uppsala University, Sweden

³Department of Womens and Childrens Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

⁴Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

⁵Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden

⁶Division on Addictions, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Services, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts (at the time of the study), USA

⁷IMPACT research programme, Uppsala University, Sweden

⁸Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA 02115, USA

⁹Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

¹⁰VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA

^*Corresponding Author: Christina Scheffel Birath, Stockholm Centre for Dependency Disorders, Box 17914, SE 118, 95 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel: +467-07-36-27-69, Fax: +468-321-796 Email: