Illicit drug and injecting equipment markets inside english prisons: A qualitative study

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 47-64

  Hughes, Rhidian ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distribution; Drug injectors; Drugs; Hepatitis; Human immunodeficiency virus; Infection; Injecting equipment; Markets; Needles; Networks; Policy; Prison; Qualitative research; Risk; Syringes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247451635     PISSN: 10509674     EISSN: 15408558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J076v37n03_03     Document Type: Article

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