The cigar as a drug delivery device: Youth use of blunts

Addiction

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1379-1386

  Soldz, Stephen ^a,b,c   Huyser, Dana Joy ^a   Dorsey, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a Nutritional Science Research Institute   (United States)

^b Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis   (United States)

^c Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Blunt; Brands; Cigar; Drug delivery device; Drugs; Marijuana survey; Tobacco; Youth

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RACE; SCHOOL; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MASSACHUSETTS; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0142029655     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00492.x     Document Type: Article

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