Challenge of reducing drug-related deaths

Lancet

Volumn 355, Issue 9223, 2000, Pages 7-8

  Hall, W ^a   Zador, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG; STREET DRUG;

DEATH; DRUG ABUSE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADDICTION; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MORTALITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; VIROLOGY;

GREAT BRITAIN; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; OVERDOSE; RISK MANAGEMENT; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0034219096     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)02423-5     Document Type: Note

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