Cannabis use in first episode psychosis: what we have tried and why it hasn’t worked
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What have we learned from research into first-episode psychosis?
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1741-7015
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-019-1421-7