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Preparation of this comment was supported by a National Alcohol Research Center grant, AA-05595, to the Alcohol Research Group, Institute of Epidemiology and Behavioral Medicine, Medical Research Institute of San Francisco, 1816 Scenic Ave., Berkeley, CA, 94709. A further exposition of the perspective presented here can be found in: Robin Room, “The Case for a Problem Prevention Approach to Alcohol, Drug and Mental Problems,”Public Health Reports 96:1 (Jan.–Feb. 1981), pp. 26–33.
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Room, R. New directions in the primary prevention of mental problems: Comment on a debate. J Primary Prevent 5, 302–306 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01324557
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