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Review identifies ways to help children of drug and alcohol misusers

04-30-2007 · University of Bath

A review by researchers from the Mental Health R&D Unit suggests how children whose parents have drug or alcohol problems can be protected from the consequences usually associated with parental substance misuse.

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