'I guess my own fancy screwed me over': Transitions in drug use and the context of choice among young people entrenched in an open drug scene

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fast, Danya ^a   Small, Will ^a   Krüsi, Andrea ^a   Wood, Evan ^a,b   Kerr, Thomas ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREET DRUG;

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DRUG USE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG USERS; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950946982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-126     Document Type: Article

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