Risks of combined alcohol/medication use in older adults.

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Published in Am J Geriatr Pharmacother on March 01, 2007

Authors

Alison A Moore1, Elizabeth J Whiteman, Katherine T Ward

Author Affiliations

1: UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1687, USA. aamoore@mednet.ucla.edu

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