Estimating local and national problem drug use prevalence from demographics

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 401-413

  Smit, Filip ^a   Toet, Jaap ^b   Van Oers, Hans ^c   Wiessing, Lucas ^d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

^b Municipal Health Service Utrecht   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d EUROPEAN MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUG ADDICTION   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Multiple indicator method; Prevalence; Regression models; Substance misuse

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 0347478292     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1606635021000030061     Document Type: Article

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