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The last five to ten years of alcohol research seem to prove that some of the traditional myths about drinking — fears, as well as wishes and claims — may in fact be true.
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Idänpään-Heikkilä, J. (1980). Alcohol: the Old Rascal in New Clothes. In: Turner, P., Padgham, C., Hedges, A. (eds) Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05952-2_40
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