Impact of a medically supervised safer injecting facility on drug dealing and other drug-related crime

Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Wood, Evan ^a,b   Tyndall, Mark W ^a,b   Lai, Calvin ^a   Montaner, Julio S G ^a,b   Kerr, Thomas ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREET DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CRIME; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMERCE; CRIME; HUMANS; NEEDLE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM EVALUATION; STREET DRUGS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33748952962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1747597X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-1-13     Document Type: Article

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