Changes in route of drug administration among continuing heroin users: Outcomes 1 year after intake to treatment

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1085-1094

  Gossop, Michael ^a   Stewart, Duncan ^a   Marsden, John ^a   Kidd, Tara ^a   Strang, John ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heroin chasing; Injecting; Outcomes; Route of administration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; AMPHETAMINES; COCAINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NARCOTICS; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242662814     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2004.03.012     Document Type: Article

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