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. 2007 Oct;49(4):277-82.
doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.37669.

Proposal to the Indian Psychiatric Society for adopting a specialty section on addiction medicine (alcohol and other substance abuse)

Vivek Benegal  1 , Alok Bajpai, Debasish Basu, Neelam Bohra, Sudipto Chatterji, Rb Galgali, Ds Goel, Mohan K Isaac, Venugopal Jhanwar, Rajkumar Lenin, Pm Madhavan, Ak Mittal, E Mohandas, Thyloth Murali, Pratima Murthy, Rajesh Nagpal, S Nambi, C Ram Subramaniam, Shubhangi Parkar, Prasad Rao, Ms Reddy, Alok Sarin, Tp Sudhakar, Bm Tripathi, Matthew Varghese
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Proposal to the Indian Psychiatric Society for adopting a specialty section on addiction medicine (alcohol and other substance abuse)

Vivek Benegal et al. Indian J Psychiatry. 2007 Oct.
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