Understanding the developmental relationship between drug use and crime: Are drug users the best people to ask?

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 151-164

  Best, David ^a   Man, Lan Ho ^a   Gossop, Michael ^a   Harris, Jenny ^a   Sidwell, Clare ^a   Strang, John ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0346405061     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066350109141746     Document Type: Article

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