Another Complex Step: A Model of Heroin Experimentation

Field Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 353-369

  Agar, Michael H ^a  

^a Friends Social Research Center and Ethknoworks   (United States)

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EID: 84993808276     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X0101300403     Document Type: Article

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