The Harvard Twin Study of Substance Abuse: What we have learned

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 267-279

  Tsuang, Ming T ^a   Bar, Jessica L ^b   Harley, Rebecca M ^b   Lyons, Michael J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANNABIS; NICOTINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TWINS;

EID: 0034770680     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10673220127912     Document Type: Review

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