The globalization of drug injecting

Addiction

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 799-801

  Wodak, A ^a   Sarkar, S ^b   Mesquita, F ^c  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNAIDS S E Asia Pac I   (Thailand)

^c Health Department   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; ILLICIT DRUG; OPIATE;

DEATH; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG USE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INJECTION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MARKETING; POLITICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROFIT; SEROPREVALENCE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RISK-TAKING; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 3042745562     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00750.x     Document Type: Editorial

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