Multicultural contexts and alcohol and drug use as symbolic behaviour

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 321-331

  Room, Robin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Culture contact; Drinking; Ethnicity; Migration; Substance use; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844445345     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350500136326     Document Type: Review

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