Patients with Substance Abuse Problems: Effective Identification, Diagnosis, and Treatment

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  • Rowan McClean
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If you walk into any branch of Waterstones, near the biography section there is a section called “Lost Lives”. This is the result of the increasing numbers of memoirs dealing with various types of abuse in childhood and various degrees of subsequent transcendence. The genre has also less charitably been dubbed “Misery Lit”, and described as “the book world’s biggest boom sector.” I am happy to report however that this book doesn’t belong in that section.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Ulster Medical Journal

دوره 77  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007