Infectious diseases and public health: Risk-taking behavior during participation in the Swiss program for a medical prescription of narcotics (prove)

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 71-89

  Steffen, Thomas ^a   Christen, Stephan ^a   Blättler, Richard ^a   Gutzwiller, Felix ^b  

^a Institut fur Sucht und Gesundheitsforschung Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AIDS; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis C; Heroin; Injecting drug users; Prevention; Public health

Indexed keywords

METHADONE; MORPHINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NARCOTICS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0035056542     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JA-100000229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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