A follow-up study of drug users in Southern Iran

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-70

  Jafari, Siavash ^a   Rahimi Movaghar, Afarin ^b   Craib, Kevin J P ^a   Baharlou, Souzan ^c   Mathias, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cohort study; Drug use; Follow up study; Substance use

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149141598     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066350902825930     Document Type: Article

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