Women's Health Issues
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages e1-e7 , January 2012

Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Hazardously Drinking Women after Incarceration

  • Michael D. Stein, MD

      Affiliations

    • Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
    • Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Michael D. Stein, MD, Professor of Medicine & Community Health, General Medicine Research Unit, Butler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Blvd. Providence, RI 02906; Phone: (401) 455-6646; fax: (401) 455-6618.
    • ,
  • Celeste M. Caviness, MA

      Affiliations

    • Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
    • ,
  • Bradley J. Anderson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island

Received 2 December 2010 ,Revised 24 May 2011 ,Accepted 24 May 2011.

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 Funded by the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse AA 014495. Dr. Stein is a recipient of NIDA Award K24 DA000512.

PII: S1049-3867(11)00121-6

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2011.05.005

Women's Health Issues
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