Attempting suicide by drug overdose and its prevention
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عنوان ژورنال: Dusunen Adam: The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1018-8681,1309-5749
DOI: 10.5350/dajpn2018310114