Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis

@article{Nutt2010DrugHI,  title={Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis},  author={David J. Nutt and Leslie A King and Lawrence D. Phillips},  journal={The Lancet},  year={2010},  volume={376},  pages={1558-1565},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5667719}}

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