Attitudes toward needle "sharing" among injection drug users: Combining qualitative and quantitative research methods

Human Organization

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 361-369

  Carlson, Robert G ^a   Siegal, Harvey A ^b   Wang, Jichuan ^a   Falck, Russel S ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV infection; Injection drug users; Needle sharing; Qualitative and quantitative research methods; Midwest U.S

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000458111     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.55.3.d7124288u936044t     Document Type: Article

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