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This work was partially supported by grant #R01-DA-05950-02 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Wills, T.A. Comments on Heller, Thompson, Trueba, Hogg, and Vlachos-Weber, “peer support telephone dyads for elderly women”. Am J Commun Psychol 19, 75–83 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00942254

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