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Research Article

Interest in self-help materials in a general population sample of drinkers

JOHN CUNNINGHAM Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Psychology, and Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada;
,
T. CAMERON WILD Centre for Health Promotion Studies, Univers ity of Alberta, Canada;
&
GORDON W. WALSH Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada
Pages 209-213 | Published online: 10 Jul 2009

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