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Challenges in coming of age in Korea.

Lee M, Lee M, Baumann SL

Department of Nursing, INHA University, Incheon, Korea.

Nurses in the field of addictions and substance abuse have assumed, along with most of medicine, that alcohol abuse is a multifactoral health problem. The narratives of two college student's comments about their experiences of excessive drinking are considered from the human becoming theory as an alternative perspective to the causal theories which are dominant in the addictions and substance abuse fields. These issues are also considered from a human becoming perspective.

Published 2 December 2004 in Nurs Sci Q, 18(1): 71-4.
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