Injecting drug users in Scotland, 2006: Listing, number, demography, and opiate-related death-rates

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 235-246

  King, Ruth ^a   Bird, Sheila M ^b,c   Overstall, Antony ^a   Hay, Gordon ^d   Hutchinson, Sharon J ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Bayesian; Capture recapture; Injectors; Opiate related deaths; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876777460     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2012.706344     Document Type: Article

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