Drug education: Myth and reality

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 111-119

  Hawthorne, Graeme ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Centre for Health Evaluation   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drug education; Evaluation research; Programme evaluation; Public health; School drug education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348142488     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09595230125182     Document Type: Review

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