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Health Beliefs and Attendance for Specialist Alcoholism Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

David W. Rees  and
Roger Farmer
David W. Rees
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester M20 8LR
Roger Farmer*
Affiliation:
University of London, Department of Psychiatry, St. Mary's Hospital, London W2
*
∗Correspondence
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 147 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 317 - 319
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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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