Use of Mutual Support to Counteract the Effects of Socially Constructed Stigma: Gender and Drug Addiction

Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery

Volumn 7, Issue 2-4, 2012, Pages 237-252

  Sanders, Jolene M ^a  

^a HOOD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

mutual support; Narcotics Anonymous; stigma; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866866119     PISSN: 1556035X     EISSN: 15560368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2012.705705     Document Type: Article

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