Becoming vulnerable: Young women's accounts of initiation to injecting drug use

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 511-527

  Martin, Fiona Susan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

initiation; injecting drug use; intimacy; risk; vulnerability; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956217413     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066351003611653     Document Type: Article

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