Social relationships of crime-involved women cocaine users

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 445-460

  Pottieger, Anne E ^a   Tressell, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine use; Crime; Family; Friends; Treatment; Women

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; CHILD CARE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CRIME; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0034487541     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2000.10400246     Document Type: Article

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