Social relationships and public health: A social neuroscience perspective focusing on the opioid system

Social Neuroscience and Public Health: Foundations for the Science of Chronic Disease Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 163-178

  Way, Baldwin M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6852-3_10     Document Type: Chapter

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