Heroin snorters versus injectors: Comparison on drug use and treatment outcome in age-matched samples

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-15

  Carpenter, Matthew J ^a,c   Chutuape, Mary Ann ^a   Stitzer, Maxine L ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BPRU   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Detoxification; Heroin; Intranasal; Intravenous; Route

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG ABUSE PATTERN; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031740294     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-8716(98)00103-3     Document Type: Article

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