Cocaine/crack cocaine consumption, treatment demand, seizures, related offences, prices, average purity levels and deaths in the UK (1990-2004)

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-79

  Schifano, Fabrizio ^a,b   Corkery, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Cocaine deaths; Cocaine epidemiology; Crack cocaine; Drug misuse

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MISUSE; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COMMERCE; CRACK COCAINE; CRIME; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37749007200     PISSN: 02698811     EISSN: 14617285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269881107079170     Document Type: Article

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