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Substance Use & Misuse Volume 46, 2011 - Issue 9
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Cross-National Comparisons of Sex Differences in Opportunities to Use Alcohol or Drugs, and the Transitions to Use

J. Elisabeth WellsDepartment of Public Health and General Practice, University of Otago, Christchurch, New ZealandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Josep Maria HaroCiber en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM) ISCIII, Sant Joan de Deu-SSM, Barcelona, Spain
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Eli KaramBalamand University, Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy, and Applied Care (IDRAAC), St George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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Sing LeeDepartment of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Jean-Pierre LepineUniversite Paris Diderot et Paris Descartes, Hospital Fernand Widal, Assistance Publicque Hopitaux de Paris, INSERM U 705, Paris, France
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Ma. Elena Medina-MoraDivision of Epidemiology and Psychosocial Research, National Institute of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Mexico City, Mexico
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Hideyuki NakaneDivision of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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Jose PosadaDepartmento de Investigacion, Instituto Colombiano del Sistema Nervioso Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca University, Bogota, Colombia
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James C. AnthonyMichigan State University, Department of Epidemiology, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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Hui ChengMichigan State University, Department of Epidemiology, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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Louisa Degenhardt
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Matthias AngermeyerCentre for Public Mental Health, Vienna, Austria
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Ronny BruffaertsDepartment of Neurosciences, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
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Giovanni de GirolamoIRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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Ron de GraafNetherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Meyer GlantzNational Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Oye GurejeDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Ibadan, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Pages 1169-1178 | Published online: 21 Mar 2011

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