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‘Alcohol short-circuits important part of the brain’: Swedish newspaper representations of biomedical alcohol research

Alexandra BogrenCentre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD), Stockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 177-187 | Received 25 Apr 2016, Accepted 19 Sep 2016, Published online: 07 Nov 2016

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