Screening and brief intervention for hazardous alcohol use within Indigenous populations: Potential solution or impossible dream?

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 439-448

  Anderson, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Alcohol; Brief intervention; First nations; Indigenous; Inuit; Screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148838974     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350701219210     Document Type: Article

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