Pothead or pot smoker? A taxometric investigation of cannabis dependence

Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Denson, Thomas F ^a   Earleywine, Mitch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CANNABIS SMOKING; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CANNABIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 33947717389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1747597X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-1-22     Document Type: Article

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