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The Role of Older Brothers in Younger Brothers' Drug Use Viewed in the Context of Parent and Peer Influences

Judith S. Brook Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
,
Martin Whiteman School of Social Work, Columbia University, USA
,
Ann Scovell Gordon Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
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David W. Brook Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Pages 59-75 | Received 12 Dec 1988, Published online: 06 Jul 2010

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