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. 2022 Feb 26;399(10327):e7-e8.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00123-3. Epub 2015 Sep 3.

Cultural specificity in alcohol use disorders

Jürgen Rehm¹, Robin Room²

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¹ Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Toronto, ON M5S 2S1, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: jtrehm@gmail.com.
² Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Turning Point, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia; School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 26343842
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00123-3

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Cultural specificity in alcohol use disorders

Jürgen Rehm et al. Lancet. 2022.

. 2022 Feb 26;399(10327):e7-e8.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00123-3. Epub 2015 Sep 3.

Authors

Jürgen Rehm¹, Robin Room²

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Toronto, ON M5S 2S1, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: jtrehm@gmail.com.
² Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Turning Point, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia; School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 26343842
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00123-3

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Alcohol use disorders.
Connor JP, Haber PS, Hall WD. Connor JP, et al. Lancet. 2016 Mar 5;387(10022):988-998. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00122-1. Epub 2015 Sep 3. Lancet. 2016. PMID: 26343838 Review.

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