Ethnic-Specific Support Systems as a Method for Sustaining Long-Term Addiction Recovery

Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery

Volumn 7, Issue 2-4, 2012, Pages 171-188

  Evans, Arthur C ^a   Achara Abrahams, Ijeoma ^a   Lamb, Roland ^b   White, William L ^c  

^a Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services   (United States)

^b Office of Addiction Services   (United States)

^c Chestnut Health Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

addiction recovery; ethnicity; mutual aid; race; racial disparities; recovery mutual aid; recovery support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866842243     PISSN: 1556035X     EISSN: 15560368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2012.705667     Document Type: Article

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