Illicit drug use among Icelandic prisoners prior to their imprisonment

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 98-104

  Sigurdsson, Jon F ^a   Gudjonsson, Gisli H ^b  

^a Natl Prison and Probation Admin   (Iceland)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; CANNABIS; ILLICIT DRUG; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICELAND; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRISONER; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030002355     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.66     Document Type: Article

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