The Khat Users: A study of khat chewing in Liverpool's Somali men

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-169

  Ahmed, A G ^a   Salib, Emad ^b  

^a Saskatchewan Hospital   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHA EDULIS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMALIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATHA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT EXTRACTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMALIA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0032044944     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249803800215     Document Type: Article

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