Opportunities to learn and barriers to change: Crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver

Harm Reduction Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Boyd, Susan ^a   Johnson, Joy L ^b   Moffat, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; PUBLIC OPINION; SMOKING;

EID: 58149345751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-5-34     Document Type: Article

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