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Substance Abuse and Anxiety Disorders: The Case of Social Anxiety Disorder and PTSD

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This chapter aims to provide a background in anxiety disorder/substance use disorder (SUD) comorbidity and its treatment, with an in-depth focus on social anxiety disorder (SAD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The chapter covers relevant comorbidity models and describes the complexities of these comorbid conditions, followed by a section devoted to treatment of co-occurring SAD or PTSD and SUD.

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Ham, L.S., Connolly, K.M., Milner, L.A., Lovett, D.E., Feldner, M.T. (2013). Substance Abuse and Anxiety Disorders: The Case of Social Anxiety Disorder and PTSD. In: Storch, E., McKay, D. (eds) Handbook of Treating Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6458-7_18

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