Estimating the incidence and prevalence of injecting drug use in Glasgow

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 307-315

  Frischer, Martin ^a,c   Goldberg, David ^a   Taylor, Avril ^a   Bloor, Michael ^b  

^a Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c RUCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug injecting; Glasgow; Incidence; Outcidence; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042861481     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359709004345     Document Type: Article

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