Drug selling among drug misusers before intake to treatment and at 1-year follow-up: Results from the National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS)

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 143-151

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

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crime; Dependence; Drug selling; Heroin; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034380365     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713659327     Document Type: Article

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