Sex-for-crack-cocaine exchange, poor black women, and pregnancy

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 612-630

  Sharpe, Tanya Telfair ^a,b,c,d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CRACK COCAINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSTITUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035462158     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104973201129119334     Document Type: Article

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