My google fu is weak

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I need to find an article online called “A prospective Study of the utility of standardized instruments in predicting recidivism among first DWI offenders,” (1996) by Sandra Lapham, M.D., and Betty K. Skipper, Ph.D., and Gary Simpson, M.D., Ph." and I need it fast, help me out guys.

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I’ll try to find it. Here’s a full citation, in case anyone else wants to try:

Lapham, S.C., Skipper, B.J., and Simpson, G.L. A prospective study of the utility of standardized instruments in predicting recidivism among first DWI offenders. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 58(5), 524–530, 1997.

(http://www.bhrcs.org/about/members/lapham.htm)

EDIT: If you want, I can photocopy the article and mail it to you, but that may take too long. I have access to the actual physical journal, but so far I haven’t found any online copies.

EDIT 2: It’s on PubMed, but unfortunately, only the abstract is available. Here it is:

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Sorry Seph, but I need the full article online, thanks for trying.

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How badly do you need this? If it’s a matter of life and death, I could go make a photocopy, then scan it and try sending the scans to you (the article seems to be only a few pages long).

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It’s not a matter of life and death, but I need it for an in class diagnostic tommorow, and I can only assume it’s online somewhere since the assignment for the class was to find the article online and prove your leet researching skills.

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I’ve got the PDF; I’ll upload it shortly.

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Fool, you gotta speak up about this shit earlier. :stuck_out_tongue: If I had known yesterday night or something, I could have found you that article, no problem. My school has an account with several archives like that, including Ebscohost, LexusNexus, and Proquest. Keep that in mind, for a later date! Speak up quicker. :stuck_out_tongue: Maybe you couldn’t this time, I dunno. But yeah. You see me every damn day if you’re in the chat! Speak up kiddo :stuck_out_tongue: It never ever hurts to ask.

Unless it does. :stuck_out_tongue:

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It’s a’ight, yo, I got it:

http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/sk/recidivism.pdf

You wouldn’t have been able to find it via Lexis-Nexis anyway. I had to use some database called “Health reference center-academic.”

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Thank you very much SK

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I would’ve checked on web of science or biosys or some other database like Pubmed. And now I’m too late >_>. Boo. GJ SK.

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Chuh, your school library might have some online database for various articles and stuff. I know UGA has online access to like every published article ever. I know I’ve gotten like a 1949 articles with it before.

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My school’s online database is really sucky. Gosh darn public school system…

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Yeah, I never liked Lexus Nexus anyways. Oh well :stuck_out_tongue: I never really liked those things at all, truthfully. I think for my research papers in english, I used like, one article off of Ebscohost and that’s it. Still, in cases like this, it could be useful. Good to know that it’s been found though. :smiley:

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They generally get better once you reach the college level.

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That’s promising at least. It’s just that this is actually my first year at a public school after 9 years of private school, pretty much everything is worse.