'Finding Your Own Place': An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Young Men's Experience of Early Recovery from Addiction

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 477-490

  Rodriguez, Lymarie ^a   Smith, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early recovery; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Narcotics anonymous; Young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905583385     PISSN: 15571874     EISSN: 15571882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11469-014-9479-0     Document Type: Article

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