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Alcoholism as a disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

D. L. Davies
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1974 , pp. 130 - 132
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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