The substance‐abusing patient and primary care: Linkage via the addiction treatment system?Footnote¹

Preliminary data were presented at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine, May 5, 1995, and published in abstract form in the Journal of General Internal Medicine 1995; 10 (Suppl. 2): 79.

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