Drinking patterns and attitudes toward drinking in the late-middle-aged

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1085-1100

  San José, Begoña ^a,c   Bongers, Inge M B ^a   Garretsen, Henk F L ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Public Health Service of the Rotterdam Region   (Netherlands)

^c Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Drinking behavior; Late middle aged

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ABSTINENCE; ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUNKENNESS; FEMALE; HANGOVER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

EID: 0033028352     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826089909039398     Document Type: Article

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