Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 67, Issue 1 , Pages 41-51 , 1 June 2002

Cognitive impairment in methadone maintenance patients

Received 24 October 2001 ,Revised 14 January 2002 ,Accepted 21 January 2002.

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