Treatment retention in the Drug Intervention Programme: Do primary drug users fare better than primary offenders?

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-209

  Best, David ^a   Day, Ed ^a   Homayoun, Saffron ^a   Lenton, Hannah ^a   Moverley, Robert ^a   Openshaw, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 41549116834     PISSN: 09687637     EISSN: 14653370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687630701198165     Document Type: Article

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