The Importance of Alcoholics Anonymous in Changing Destructive Behavior

Primary Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 65-68+71

  Nace, Edgar P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ALCOHOLISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 1842507084     PISSN: 10826319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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