A comparison of addiction and transience among street youth: Los Angeles, California, Austin, Texas, and St. Louis, Missouri

Community Mental Health Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 296-307

  Ferguson, Kristin M ^a   Jun, Jina ^b   Bender, Kimberly ^c   Thompson, Sanna ^b   Pollio, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Homeless youth; Street youth; Substance abuse; Transience

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMELESS YOUTH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MISSOURI; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952091218     PISSN: 00103853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10597-009-9264-x     Document Type: Article

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