A 33-year follow-up of narcotics addicts.

By PhD Yih-Ing Hser, PhD Valerie Hoffman, PhD Christine E. Grella, PhD M. Douglas Anglin. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2001

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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