Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 94, Issue 1 , Pages 1-11 , 1 April 2008

Non-prescribed use of pain relievers among adolescents in the United States

  • Li-Tzy Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 919 668 6067; fax: +1 919 668 7056.
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  • Daniel J. Pilowsky

      Affiliations

    • Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, Room 1702, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • ,
  • Ashwin A. Patkar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715, USA

Received 19 March 2007 ,Revised 19 September 2007 ,Accepted 22 September 2007.

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PII: S0376-8716(07)00420-6

doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.09.023

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