A safer alternative: Cannabis substitution as harm reduction

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 654-659

  Lau, Nicholas ^a   Sales, Paloma ^a   Averill, Sheigla ^a   Murphy, Fiona ^a   Sato, Sye Ok ^a   Murphy, Sheigla ^a  

^a Institute for Scientific Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

Cannabis; Drug substitution; Drug user; Harm reduction; Marijuana

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIFORNIA; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANNABIS; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 84945451888     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dar.12275     Document Type: Article

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