The adulteration of drugs: What dealers do to illicit drugs, and what they think is done to them

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 297-306

  Coomber, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adulterants; Contaminants; Dangerous adulterants; Diluents; Drug dealers; Impurities; Purity

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042867251     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359709004344     Document Type: Article

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