WHO cross-cultural applicability research on diagnosis and assessment of substance use disorders: An overview of methods and selected results

Addiction

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 199-220

  Room, R ^e   Janca, A ^a   Bennett, L A ^b   Schmidt, L ^c   Sartorius, N ^d   Blaine, J ^f   Campillo, C ^g   Chandrashekar, C R ^g   Dawson, D ^h   Gogus A ^g   Grant, B ^h   Gureje, O ^g   Lee, Ho Young ^g   Mavreas, V ^g   Rolf, J ^g   Towle, L ^h   Trotter III, R ^g   Ustun T B ⁱ   Vazquez Barquero, J L ^g   Vrasti, R ^g  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^f NIDA   (United States)

^g NIAAA ^*

^h NIAAA   (United States)

ⁱ WHO

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG TOLERANCE; EMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ALCOHOLISM; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL VALUES; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0030032475     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb03176.x     Document Type: Article

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