Editorial: Drug trafficking: Time to abolish the death penalty

Addiction

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1267-1269

  Edwards, Griffith ^a   Babor, Tom ^b   Darke, Shane ^c   Hall, Wayne ^d   Marsden, John ^a   Miller, Peter ^e   West, Robert ^f  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; STREET DRUG;

CRIME; DRUG TRAFFIC; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL COMPETENCE; PUNISHMENT; UNITED NATIONS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; LEGAL ASPECT;

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CULTURE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 67650395572     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02625.x     Document Type: Editorial

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