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Drug and solvent misuse in national school children in mid-west Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Frank Houghton
Affiliation:
Department of Humanities, Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland
Hilary Cowley
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, Limerick, HSE West, Ireland
Fiona Meehan
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
Kevin Kelleher
Affiliation:
Health Protection, HSE, Ireland
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Abstract

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