Although cocaine craving can persist for weeks after the last use and is thought to play a role in future relapses, few short, reliable, and valid instruments exist to measure craving. Therefore, we wished to examine the validity of the 4-item Voris Cocaine Craving Scale (VCCS), which was previously
A simple test of cocaine craving and related responses
โ Scribed by John Voris; Ivan Elder; Praxedes Sebastian
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 210 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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