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Major Article

Assessing motivations and gender as factors in college students’ views of nonmedical prescription stimulant use

, MA & , PhD
Pages 1497-1503 | Received 14 Sep 2020, Accepted 08 Jun 2021, Published online: 16 Jul 2021

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