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Deborah Hasin1, Efrat Aharonovich, Xinhua Liu

  • 1Division of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health and the Department of Psychiatry Colle of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA. dsh2@columbia.edu

Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research
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