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  • 1James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Bronx, New York Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas Department of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation I-SERVE (Iowa-Support, Education, and Resources for Veterans and Enlisted), The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth College CDC Health Promotion Research Center at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois Mongan Institute and Health Policy and Community Health, Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.

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