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RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES

Alcohol Use and Other Psychiatric Disorders in the Formerly Homeless and Never Homeless: Prevalence, Age of Onset, Comorbidity, Temporal Sequencing, and Service Utilization

, M.S., , M.S., , M.A., , Ph.D. & , Ph.D.
Pages 601-644 | Published online: 17 Apr 2003

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