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Variation in Drug and Alcohol use among Agricultural Laborers: Watermelon Men in the Rural South

Author: Beltzer, K.V.
Date Published: 2009


This resource combines data from a risk assessment of 681 individuals in a winter home-base community and multi-site ethnography that generated interviews with 140 individuals to discuss factors that lead to excessive drug and alcohol use during peak season in high-wage crops such as watermelon.

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