Substance misuses: What place for women-only treatment programs?

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-8

  Weisner, Constance ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADDICTION; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SEX FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 12744280740     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.00953.x     Document Type: Editorial

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