Social fear, drug-related beliefs, and drug policy

Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 15-32

  Coomber, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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