How to handle legal highs? Findings from a German online survey and considerations on drug policy issues

Drugs and Alcohol Today

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 222-231

  Werse, Bernd ^a   Morgenstern, Cornelia ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drug controls; Drug policy; Drugs; Europe; Germany; Legal highs; New drugs; Quantitative research; Risk analysis; Synthetic drugs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870230728     PISSN: 17459265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17459261211286636     Document Type: Article

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