Substance use and misuse after disaster prevalences and correlates

Mental Health and Disasters

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 94-115

  Van der Velden, Peter G ^a   Kleber, Rolf J ^a,b  

^a Institute for Psychotrauma   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84927045570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511730030.006     Document Type: Chapter

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