On drug treatment and social control: Russian narcology's great leap backwards

Harm Reduction Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Elovich, Richard ^a   Drucker, Ernest ^a,b  

^a Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BUPRENORPHINE; ILLICIT DRUG; METHADONE; OPIATE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG CONTROL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPIATE ADDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIAL CONTROL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 48249084953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-5-23     Document Type: Editorial

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