Estimating the prevalence of crack dependence using capture-recapture with institutional and field data: A three-city study in the Netherlands

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 173-180

  Pérez, Alberto Oteo ^a   Cruyff, Maarten J L F ^b   Benschop, Annemieke ^a   Korf, Dirk J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Crack dependence; Gender; Mark recapture; Prevalence; Problem drug users; Respondent driven sampling

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; AGE; CITY; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CITIES; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CRACK COCAINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84873381711     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2012.748073     Document Type: Article

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