Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 43, Issue 6 , Pages 463-468 , November 2002

Comorbidity of substance abuse and other psychiatric disorders in acute general psychiatric admissions: A study from Lebanon

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doi: 10.1053/comp.2002.35910

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 43, Issue 6 , Pages 463-468 , November 2002

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