Drug Education with Special Needs Populations: Identifying and understanding the challenges

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 261-273

  Snow, Pamela C ^a,b   Wallace, Stephen D ^b   Munro, Geoffrey D ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian Drug Foundation   (Australia)

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EID: 0035590352     PISSN: 09687637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687630125682     Document Type: Article

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