Post-Vietnam heroin use and injection by returning US veterans: Clues to preventing injection today

Addiction

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1053-1060

  Robins, Lee N ^a   Slobodyan, Sergey ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CERGE EI   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Heroin; Injection; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARMY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG USE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; NEGRO; OPIATE ADDICTION; PROPHYLAXIS; RACE; RELAPSE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK; SCHOOL; SEASHORE; SOLDIER; VIET NAM; WAR; WORK;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RECURRENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNITED STATES; VIETNAM; WAR;

EID: 0042905875     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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