Characteristics of a non-treatment sample of heavy cocaine users volunteering for studies involving cocaine administration in Baltimore (USA)

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-149

  Foltin, Richard W ^a   Fischman, Marian W ^a   Cornell, Elizabeth L ^a   Butler, Lisa ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Demographics; Heroin; Homeless; Patterns; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005164069     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359609010753     Document Type: Article

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