The Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act: evidence, ethics and the law

Fiona Lander1, Dennis Gray2, Edward Wilkes2

  • 1Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass, USA. fiona.lander@mail.harvard.edu.

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