Substance Use in the Population-A Plea for a Balanced Discussion

Affiliations

¹ Center of Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ZIS), University of Hamburg, c/o Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.

Editorial

Ingo Schäfer. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2022.

. 2022 Aug 8;119(31-32):525-526.

doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2022.0286.

¹ Center of Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ZIS), University of Hamburg, c/o Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.

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