Price-setting behaviour in the heroin market

Bulletin on Narcotics

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 105-139

  Pietschmann, Thomas ^a  

^a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Austria   (Austria)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Distribution pattern; Drug markets; Drug prices; Heroin; Heroin markets; Heroin prices; Intervention; Iran (Islamic Republic of); Opium; Opium poppy ban; Organized crime; Pakistan; Price setting behaviour; Profit; Purity; Risk; Tajikistan; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645882930     PISSN: 0007523X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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