Snowball sampling applied to opiate addicts outside the treatment system

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 317-330

  Eland Goossensen, M A ^a   Van De Goor, L A M ^a   Vollemans, E C ^a   Hendriks, V M ^a   Garretsen, H F L ^a  

^a Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Addiction; Drug dependence; Hidden population; Methodology; Snowball sampling; Snowball selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042972897     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359709004346     Document Type: Article

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