The "lessons" of the Australian "heroin shortage"

Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Degenhardt, Louisa ^a   Day, Carolyn ^b   Gilmour, Stuart ^a   Hall, Wayne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; NARCOTIC AGENT; STREET DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DRUG CONTROL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COMMERCE; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; OVERDOSE; PREVALENCE; STREET DRUGS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 33749515731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1747597X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-1-11     Document Type: Note

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