Identity and Recovery from Dependent Drug Use: The addict's perspective

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 46-59

  McIntosh, James ^a   McKeganey, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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