Addiction beliefs of treatment providers: Factors explaining variance

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 367-384

  Schaler, Jeffrey A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholics Anonymous; Beliefs; Certification; Disease model controversy; Gender; Spiritual

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742534475     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359709002970     Document Type: Article

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