Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 261-270 , April 2006

Person-related and treatment-related barriers to alcohol treatment

Part of this paper was presented as a poster to the June 2003 Research Society on Alcoholism scientific meeting.

Received 22 March 2005 ,Revised 6 January 2006 ,Accepted 9 January 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2006.01.003

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 261-270 , April 2006

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