PROSPER community-university partnership delivery system effects on substance misuse through 6 1/2 years past

Richard Spoth1, Cleve Redmond, Chungyeol Shin

  • 1Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute, Iowa State University, 2625 N Loop Drive, Suite 2400, Ames, IA 50010, USA. rlspoth@iastate.edu

Preventive Medicine
|January 2, 2013
PubMed
Abstract

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