Drug misuse and acquisitive crime among clients recruited to the National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS)

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 10-20

  Stewart, Duncan ^a   Gossop, Michael ^a   Marsden, John ^a   Rolfe, Alexandra ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; COCAINE; METHADONE; OPIATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MISUSE; FEMALE; FORGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHADONE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE DRUG ABUSE; THEFT;

EID: 0034014911     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.339     Document Type: Article

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