Psychiatry Research
Volume 117, Issue 3 , Pages 277-280 , 25 March 2003

CSF CRH in abstinent cocaine-dependent patients

  • Alec Roy

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatry Service (116A), Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Healthcare System, 385 Tremont Avenue, East Orange, NJ 07018, USA
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  • Garth Bissette

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, USA
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  • Redford Williams

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical School, Durham, NC, USA
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  • Jeffrey Berman

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatry Service (116A), Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Healthcare System, 385 Tremont Avenue, East Orange, NJ 07018, USA
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  • Bienvenido Gonzalez

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatry Service (116A), Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Healthcare System, 385 Tremont Avenue, East Orange, NJ 07018, USA

Received 30 April 2002 ,Revised 26 December 2002 ,Accepted 27 January 2003.

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PII: S0165-1781(03)00040-4

doi: 10.1016/S0165-1781(03)00040-4

Psychiatry Research
Volume 117, Issue 3 , Pages 277-280 , 25 March 2003

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