Economic burden of drug dependency. Social costs incurred by drug users at intake to the National Treatment Outcome Research Study

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 173, Issue AUG., 1998, Pages 160-165

  Healey, A ^a   Knapp, M ^a   Astin, J ^a   Gossop, M ^a   Marsden, J ^a   Stewart, D ^a   Lehmann, P ^a   Godfrey, C ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0031817878     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.173.2.160     Document Type: Article

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