Drug abuse and its treatment in China

Sucht

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 228-237

  Michels, Ingo Ilja ^a,b,e   Zhao, Min ^c   Lu, Lin ^d  

^a Federal Ministry of Health   (Germany)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e D 1702 Mingyuan Century City ^*  (China)

Author keywords

China; Drug abuse; Harm reduction; Heroin; HIV AIDS; Methadone maintenance treatment

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; CLONIDINE; METHADONE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHINA; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; OPIATE ADDICTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 36048943903     PISSN: 09395911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1463/2007.04.04     Document Type: Article

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