Addiction and Welfare Dependency: Interpreting the Connection
- 1 May 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 49 (2) , 221-241
- https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2002.49.2.221
Abstract
Recent deliberations over welfare reform place a new emphasis on alcohol and drug addiction as a cause of welfare dependency and joblessness. ExistinKeywords
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