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Research article

What's in a rehab? Ethnographic evaluation research in Indigenous Australian residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation centres

Pages 105-116 | Received 02 Feb 2008, Accepted 27 May 2008, Published online: 01 Jul 2008

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