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Developing substance misuse services in United Arab Emirates: the National Rehabilitation Centre experience

In 2001 a directive was issued to establish the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) to deal with the growing problem of substance misuse in the United Arab Emirates. The NRC has achieved many goals as a treatment and rehabilitation facility as well as a drug and alcohol demand reduction response ce...

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Autores principales: Al Ghaferi, Hamad A., Ali, Ahmed Y., Gawad, Tarek A., Wanigaratne, Shamil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5663023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093960
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spelling pubmed-56630232017-11-02 Developing substance misuse services in United Arab Emirates: the National Rehabilitation Centre experience Al Ghaferi, Hamad A. Ali, Ahmed Y. Gawad, Tarek A. Wanigaratne, Shamil BJPsych Int Special Paper In 2001 a directive was issued to establish the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) to deal with the growing problem of substance misuse in the United Arab Emirates. The NRC has achieved many goals as a treatment and rehabilitation facility as well as a drug and alcohol demand reduction response centre. It is now working towards being an international centre of excellence. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5663023/ /pubmed/29093960 Text en © 2017 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full Developing substance misuse services in United Arab Emirates: the National Rehabilitation Centre experience
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