Interpreting changes in heroin supply in Melbourne: Droughts, gluts or cycles?

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 295-303

  Dietze, Paul ^a,b   Fitzgerald, John ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; REVIEW;

HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036025703     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0959523021000002778     Document Type: Review

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