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o make women depressed," said Wilsnack. "However, a vicious circle could possibly begin with drinking in response to depression. This study underscores the important fact that women and men differ in significant ways both biologically and socially that may impact how they drink, and the predictors and consequences of their drinking behavior."

"These findings provide critical clarification of the relationship between alcohol consumption and depression that will be essential for future research intended on identifying causal directions and mechanisms," said Graham. "For example, in the past longitudinal research has been conducted attempting to disentangle the alcohol-depression relationship in order to identify whether alcohol consumption leads to depression, depression leads to alcohol consumption, or some third factor associated with both alcohol consumption and depression accounts for the relationship. No clear pattern has emerged from these studies. Systematic consideration of the types of measures for alcohol consumption and depression and gender may lead to clearer, more consistent findings."

Wilsnack added that future research might also attempt to specify how the social context of drinking may affect the links between depression and drinking. For example, she said, "the association of clinical depression with episodes of heavy drinking may be stronger for women who have heavy-drinking partners and/or who have more social opportunities to drink."

The bottom line, said Wilsnack, is that "clinical depression may encourage some women to drink large amounts of alcohol in hopes of numbing depressed feelings, with risks of alcohol abuse and dependence. Therefore, clinicians treating women for depression really need to be concerned about women's use of alcohol, because of the risks that women may try to medicate their moods with alcohol."

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