Unofficial policy: Access to housing, housing information and social services among homeless drug users in Hartford, Connecticut

Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Dickson Gomez, Julia ^a   Convey, Mark ^a   Hilario, Helena ^a   Corbett, A Michelle ^a   Weeks, Margaret ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONNECTICUT; DRUG USERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOMELESS PERSONS; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 34248364743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1747597X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-2-8     Document Type: Article

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