Ambulance attendance at heroin overdose in Melbourne: The establishment of a database of Ambulance Service records

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-33

  Dietze, Paul M ^a,b   Cvetkovski, Stefan ^a,b   Rumbold, Greg ^a,b   Miller, Peter ^a,b  

^a Turning Point Alcohol Drug Ctr Inc   (Australia)

^b TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG CENTRE   (Australia)

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EID: 0034398833     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09595230096110     Document Type: Article

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