Recovery from problem drug use: What can we learn from the sociologist Erving Goffman?

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-9

  Neale, Joanne ^a   Nettleton, Sarah ^b   Pickering, Lucy ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79952940050     PISSN: 09687637     EISSN: 14653370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09687631003705546     Document Type: Review

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