Cross-Addiction Risk Profile Associations with COVID-19 Anxiety: a Preliminary Exploratory Study.
"Cross-addiction" involves a person substituting one form of addictive behaviour for another. Indeed, cross-additive presentations have been frequently described (e.g. from drugs to alcohol, gambling to sex), and risk profiles have been assumed. Nevertheless, there has been a dearth of evidence cons...
| Published in: | International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 106 - 130 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2024
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