Drug abuse-related mortality: A study of teenage addicts over a 20-year period

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 437-441

  Oyefeso, A ^a   Ghodse, H ^a   Clancy, C ^a   Corkery, J ^a   Goldfinch, R ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; METHADONE; MORPHINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG INTOXICATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEROIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; MORTALITY; NARCOTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; WALES;

EID: 0032837464     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050166     Document Type: Article

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