Elias Aboujaoude, MD, MA
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Estimated prevalence of compulsive buying behavior in the United States.
Am J Psychiatry. 2006; (10): 1806-12
Compulsive buying (uncontrolled urges to buy, with resulting significant adverse consequences) has been estimated to affect from 1.8% to 16% of the adult U.S. population. To the authors' knowledge, no study has used a large general population sample to estimate its prevalence.
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