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Physical activity might help people with substance use disorders to reduce or cease their usage, with 75% of studies that evaluated it showing a relationship

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PLOS

Characteristics and impact of physical activity interventions during substance use disorder treatment excluding tobacco: A systematic review

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283861

Article Title: Characteristics and impact of physical activity interventions during substance use disorder treatment excluding tobacco: A systematic review

Author Countries: Canada

Funding: F.P. was supported by a Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé doctoral fellowship and she received funding from CICC (Centre international de criminologie comparé) for the translation of the article. The two funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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