Comparing the addiction careers of heroin and alcohol users and their self-reported reasons for achieving abstinence

Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-305

  Best, David ^a   Groshkova, Teodora ^b   Loaring, Jessica ^c   Ghufran, Safeena ^c   Day, Ed ^c   Taylor, Avril ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction careers; Alcohol career; Desistance factors; Heroin career; Life course; Recovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549245830     PISSN: 1556035X     EISSN: 15560368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2010.523364     Document Type: Article

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