Down on main street: Drugs and the small-town vortex

Health and Place

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 247-254

  Draus, Paul ^a   Carlson, Robert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Qualitative methods; Rural drug use; Social capital; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG; STREET DRUG;

DRUG USER; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RURAL AREA; SMALL TOWN; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG USE; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54549110121     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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