How well do trends in incidence of heroin use reflect hypothesised trends in prevalence of problem drug use in the North West of England?

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 537-549

  Millar, Tim ^a   Gemmell, Islay ^a   Hay, Gordon ^b   Heller, Richard F ^a   Donmall, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Incidence; Lag correction; Prevalence; Problem drug use

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750468318     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350600906552     Document Type: Article

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