‘Why can't I just not drink?’ A qualitative study of adults' social experiences of stopping or reducing alcohol consumption

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Drug and Alcohol Review

• Publication date

  2017-07-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/dar.12461PMID 27678377
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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