Supply always comes on the heels of demand: What effects do control strategies have on drug users themselves?

Addiction

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1903-1905

  Freeman, Tom P ^a   Curran, H Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer choice; Control strategies; Demand; Legal highs; Marketing regulations; Supply

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; STREET DRUG;

DRUG CONTROL; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MARKETING; NOTE;

DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; HUMANS; MARKETING; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 84867178235     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.04032.x     Document Type: Note

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