Complicity on the river bank: The search for the truth about problem gambling: Reply to the commentaries

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1235-1239

  Orford, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; COGNITION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLICY;

EID: 24344485597     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01219.x     Document Type: Note

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