From one-off triers to regular users: Measuring the regularity of drug taking in a cohort of english adolescents (1996-1999)

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 97-114

  Egginton, Roy ^a   Parker, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescent drinking and tobacco use; Cohort studies and attrition; Longitudinal study of adolescents; Measuring regularity of drug use; Young people in N. England; Young people's drug use

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002239039     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350290001597     Document Type: Article

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