Interviewing illicit drug users: Observations from the field

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 517-535

  Wright, Sam ^a   Klee, Hilary ^a   Reid, Paul ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fieldwork; Illicit drug use; Interviewing; Matched case control; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 2842520536     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359809004369     Document Type: Article

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