Moulding an emancipatory discourse: How mothers recovering from addiction build their own discourse

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-42

  Gueta, Keren ^a   Addad, Moshe ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Addiction; Discourse; Narcotics anonymous; Self medication; Therapeutic community; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871452869     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2012.680080     Document Type: Article

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