'Heroin hell their own making': Construction of heroin users in the Australian press 1992-97

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 191-201

  Elliott, Amanda J ^a,b   Chapman, Simon ^a,b  

^a Dept of Pub Hlth and Comm Med ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Content analysis; Discourse analysis; Newspapers; Prescribed heroin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034382994     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713659328     Document Type: Article

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