Using drugs: The meaning of opiate substances and their consumption from the consumer perspective

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 434-452

  Albertín, Pilar ^a   Íñiguez, Lupicinio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consumer understanding of drugs; Drug consumption; Ethnography; Social meanings of drugs

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849129536     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350802041455     Document Type: Review

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