Methodological issues and selected economic consequences of substance abuse in Ontario

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 417-431

  Xie, Xiaodi ^a,d   Rehm, Jürgen ^b   Single, Eric ^c   Robson, Lynda ^c  

^a CCOHTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction   (Canada)

^d Can Coord Off Hlth Technol A   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discount rate; Economic costs; Morbidity; Mortality; Substance abuse; Value of Housekeeping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347716845     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359909004396     Document Type: Article

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