TY - JOUR AU - Gregorowski, Claire AU - Seedat, Soraya AU - Jordaan, Gerhard P. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/11/07 TI - A clinical approach to the assessment and management of co-morbid eating disorders and substance use disorders JO - BMC Psychiatry SP - 289 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Research has shown that eating disorder (ED) patients who abuse substances demonstrate worse ED symptomatology and poorer outcomes than those with EDs alone, including increased general medical complications and psychopathology, longer recovery times, poorer functional outcomes and higher relapse rates. This article provides a broad overview of the prevalence, aetiology, assessment and management of co-morbid EDs and substance use disorders (SUDs). SN - 1471-244X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-289 DO - 10.1186/1471-244X-13-289 ID - Gregorowski2013 ER -