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Compared with nonalcoholic women, women (and men) alcoholics were more likely to report that they drank for escapist reasons and that they experienced positive psychological effects of drinking; compared with nonalcoholic women and men alcoholics, women alcoholics were more likely to report that they felt powerless and inadequate before drinking.
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Linda J. Beckman (1980) studied this question.
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