Informal 'Sorter' Houses: A qualitative insight of the 'shooting gallery' phenomenon in a UK setting

Health and Place

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 981-989

  Parkin, Stephen ^a   Coomber, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug settings; Drug user activism; Harm reduction; Injecting drug use; Risk environment; Shooting gallery

Indexed keywords

DRUG USER; HEALTH RISK; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ADULT; DRUG USERS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249202561     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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