Women and substance use disorders

Mens Sana Monographs

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-62

  Hecksher, Dorte ^a   Hesse, Morten ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Barriers to treatment; Development of addiction; Gender; Trauma; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349147976     PISSN: 09731229     EISSN: 19984014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1229.42585     Document Type: Article

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