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October 7, 2014BMC Public HealthOpen Access

Prevalence and factors determining psychoactive substance (PAS) use among Hawassa University (HU) undergraduate students, Hawassa Ethiopia

Andargachew Kassa Fiker Taddesse Aweke Yilma

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The prevalence of PAS use among undergraduate HU students is high. Designing effective strategies to reduce PAS use should be everyone's priority.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69e1af6f86641ecb6b86b701 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1044

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