The role of schools in drug education and wider substance misuse prevention

Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 84-98

  Stead, Martine ^a   Stradling, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203860090     Document Type: Chapter

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