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The Public Health Priority to Address the Accessibility and Safety of Firearms: Recommendations for Training

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, One Baylor Plaza BCM 350, Houston, Texas, 77030

    John H. Coverdale M.D., M.Ed., FRANZCP (Menninger)

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, in Stanford, California

    Laura Weiss Roberts M.D., M.A. (Chairman and Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor)

  3. University Psychiatric Center in Detroit, Michigan

    Richard Balon M.D.

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Coverdale, J.H., Weiss Roberts, L. & Balon, R. The Public Health Priority to Address the Accessibility and Safety of Firearms: Recommendations for Training. Acad Psychiatry 34, 405–408 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.34.6.405

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