Big events in Greece and HIV infection among people who inject drugs

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 825-838

  Nikolopoulos, Georgios K ^a,b,c   Sypsa, Vana ^d   Bonovas, Stefanos ^d,e   Paraskevis, Dimitrios ^d   Malliori Minerva, Melpomeni ^d   Hatzakis, Angelos ^d   Friedman, Samuel R ^b  

^a Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big Events; Drug use networks; Drugs; Economic crisis; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Greece; HIV; Injectors; Risk environments

Indexed keywords

GREECE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

GREECE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 84940174032     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2015.978659     Document Type: Article

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