Risk factors

Substance Abuse and Dependence in Adolescence: Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 87-117

  Sullivan, Terri N ^a   Farrell, Albert D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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