Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention: Where Research Meets Practice

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 565-575

  Higgins Biddle, John C ^a   Babor, Thomas F ^b   Mullahy, John ^c,d,e   Daniels, Jeffrey ^a   McRee, Bonnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; RESEARCH; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ALCOHOLISM; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION;

EID: 0031217181     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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