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Quotes from Women and Alcohol in Aotearoa/New Zealand [report] in Introduction.
Jenny Rankine et. al. 2013 ISBN 978 0 9941021 2 6
Reproduced with kind permission from Alcohol Healthwatch and Women’s Health Action

Table from Controlling Your Drinking (2nd ed.) in Chapter 3.
© William R. Miller and Ricardo F. Muñoz 2013 ISBN 978 1 46250 759 7
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Excerpt from From Chocolate to Morphine in Chapter 16.
Copyright © 1983, 1993 by Andrew Weil and Winifred Rosen
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Quotes from Kick the Drink . . . Easily by Jason Vale in Chapter 17.
© Jason Vale 2011 ISBN 978 1 84590 390 9
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