Alcoholics anonymous: Sustaining behavioural change

Moving on from Crime and Substance Use: Transforming Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 195-228

  Irving, James ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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