Lost in medicine and morals: Harm minimisation would benefit from further close scrutiny of the drug related risk discourse

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-18

  Shelley, Howard ^a  

^a KENT AND MEDWAY NHS AND SOCIAL CARE PARTNERSHIP TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Harm minimisation; Risk discourse; Risk reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345761258     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359909004371     Document Type: Article

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