Balancing on the edge of death: Suicide attempts and life-threatening overdoses among drug addicts

Addiction

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 209-219

  Rossow, Ingeborg ^a   Lauritzen, Grethe ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORWAY; OUTPATIENT; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RISK; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 0032926038     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1999.9422095.x     Document Type: Article

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