Opinion piece: Sharpening the focus of alcohol policy from aggregate consumption to harm and risk reduction

Addiction Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-9

  Stockwell, Tim ^a   Single, Eric ^b   Hawks, David ^a   Rehm, Jürgen ^c  

^a National Centre for Research   (Australia)

^b Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

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EID: 2742550890     PISSN: 10586989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359709005577     Document Type: Article

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