Difficulty accessing crack pipes and crack pipe sharing among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada

Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ti, Lianping ^a,b   Buxton, Jane ^c,d   Wood, Evan ^b,d   Zhang, Ruth ^b   Montaner, Julio ^b,d   Kerr, Thomas ^b,d  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crack cocaine smoking; Harm reduction; Injection drug use; Sharing drug paraphernalia

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; STREET DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CRACK COCAINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; STREET DRUGS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855168466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1747597X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-6-34     Document Type: Article

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