Further comments on the path to drawing reasonable conclusions about prevention

Addiction

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 152-154

  Gorman, Dennis M ^a   Conde, Eugenia ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NARCOTIC AGENT; TRANQUILIZER;

DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MISUSE; HUMAN; LETTER; NARCOTIC DEPENDENCE; PRESCRIPTION;

DATA COLLECTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 57649129078     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02383.x     Document Type: Letter

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