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Alcoholism – treating ‘the second sex’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Diana G Patterson*
Affiliation:
Area Mental Health Unit, Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT79 0NS, Northern Ireland
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Abstract

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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