What motivates extreme drinking?

Swimming With Crocodiles: The Culture of Extreme Drinking

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 53-78

  Leigh, Barbara ^a   Lee, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203893241     Document Type: Chapter

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