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Psychotropic drug use: fallacies and a paradox1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

David Abrahamson
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , February 1977 , pp. 529 - 531
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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