Genetic Influences in Drug Abuse

George R. Uhl, Gregory I. Elmer, and Roy W. Pickens

Intramural Research Program,
Addiction Research Center,
National Institute of Drug Abuse,
National Institutes of Health, Baltimore,
Maryland 21224.

Michele C. LaBuda
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, Maryland 21287.


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published 2000