Adolescent heroin use: A review of the descriptive and treatment literature

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 231-237

  Hopfer, Christian J ^a,c   Khuri, Elizabeth ^b   Crowley, Thomas J ^a   Hooks, Sabrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Delinquency; Heroin; Methadone

Indexed keywords

METHADONE; NALOXONE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHADONE TREATMENT; MILIEU THERAPY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT GROUP; THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; METHADONE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036775785     PISSN: 07405472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0740-5472(02)00250-7     Document Type: Article

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