Conflicts and trade-offs due to alcohol and drugs: Clients' accounts of leaving welfare

Social Service Review

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 499-522

  Mulia, Nina ^a   Schmidt, Laura A ^a  

^a ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

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EID: 1842731114     PISSN: 00377961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378326     Document Type: Article

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