New toxics, new poverty: A social understanding of the freebase cocaine/paco in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1468-1476

  Epele, Mara E ^a  

^a IIGG ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

drugs; health; new poverty; transactions

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POLITICS; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARGENTINA; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CRACK COCAINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 80052089203     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2011.576745     Document Type: Review

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