Fifty years of brief intervention effectiveness trials for heavy drinkers

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 567-568

  Mccambridge, Jim ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ALCOHOLISM; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF;

EID: 80155187487     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2011.00379.x     Document Type: Editorial

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