Heroin addiction in Bahrain: 15 years experience

Addiction

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1859-1864

  Abdel Mawgoud, Mohamed ^a,b   Al Haddad, Mohamed K ^a  

^a Psychiatric Hospital   (Bahrain)

^b Greenwich District Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE PLUS PARACETAMOL; DIHYDROCODEINE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; METHADONE; NITRAZEPAM;

ARTICLE; BAHRAIN; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MENTAL HOSPITAL; OUTPATIENT;

BAHRAIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHADONE; PATIENT ADMISSION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030481389     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb03814.x     Document Type: Article

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