General Practitioners' Management of Problem Drinkers - Attitudes, knowledge and practice

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 118-129

  Farmer, Roger ^a   Greenwood, Nan ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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