Gateway to nowhere: How alcohol came to be scapegoated for drug abuse

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 419-425

  Peele, Stanton ^a,c   Brodsky, Archie ^b  

^a Lindesmith Center   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

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EID: 2842522907     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359709004356     Document Type: Article

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