Understanding Treatment Readiness in Recently Assessed, Pre-Treatment Substance Abusers
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عنوان ژورنال: Substance Abuse
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0889-7077,1547-0164
DOI: 10.1300/j465v28n01_03