Comparative rates of violent crime among regular methamphetamine and opioid users: Offending and victimization

Addiction

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 916-919

  Darke, Shane ^a   Torok, Michelle ^a   Kaye, Sharlene ^a   Ross, Joanne ^a   McKetin, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crime; Heroin; Methamphetamine; Offending; Victimization; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPHETAMINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CRIME VICTIMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950650709     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02872.x     Document Type: Article

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