Response to the commentaries: Commentary

Addiction

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 516-518

  Macleod, John ^a   Hickman, Matthew ^b   Vickerman, Peter ^c   Kirkbride, James ^d   Jones, Peter B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS ADDICTION; CANNABIS SMOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 33947128189     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01811.x     Document Type: Note

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