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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Premature Death as the Ultimate Failure: Predictors of Death in the US Drug User Treatment Population

Sam SchildhausThomson Reuters, Washington, DC, USACorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Bernard DugoniNORC, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pages 1666-1669 | Published online: 27 Nov 2012

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