Response to Weegmann and English’s ‘Beyond the Shadow of Drugs: Groups with Substance Misusers’

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Weegmann, M. and English, C. (2010) ‘Beyond the Shadow of Drugs: Groups with Substance Misusers’ , Group Analysis 43(1): 5-23.