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Dependency on prescribed drugs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Robert Butler  and
Anna Higgitt
Robert Butler
Affiliation:
St Charles Hospital, London, UK
Anna Higgitt*
Affiliation:
St Charles Hospital, London, UK
*
St Charles Hospital, Exmoor Street, London W10 6DZ, UK.
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Psychiatry of old age
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , May 1996 , pp. 177 - 182
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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