How non-heroin users perceive heroin users and how heroin users perceive themselves

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-32

  Finnigan, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heroin users; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742555445     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359609005560     Document Type: Article

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