Crack cocaine injection practices and HIV risk: Findings from New York and Bridgeport

Journal of Drug Issues

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 319-332

  Lankenau, Stephen E ^a   Clatts, Michael C ^b   Goldsamt, Lloyd A ^b   Welle, Dorinda ^b  

^a Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; SELF INJECTION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 3042592738     PISSN: 00220426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002204260403400204     Document Type: Article

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