Critical condition facing needle exchange programs: The politics of science

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 41, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 827-829

  Sherman, Susan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INJECTION DRUG USER; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LAW; NEEDLE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SYRINGE; SYRINGE AND NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NEEDLE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCIENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 33745685988     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10826080600669520     Document Type: Editorial

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