Nonmedical use of prescription drugs in emerging adulthood: differentiating sex from gender
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عنوان ژورنال: Addiction Research & Theory
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1606-6359,1476-7392
DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2016.1140745