Drug affordability–potential tool for comparing illicit drug markets

International Journal of Drug Policy

Volumn 56, Issue , 2018, Pages 187-196

  Groshkova, Teodora ^a   Cunningham, Andrew ^a   Royuela, Luis ^a   Singleton, Nicola ^a   Saggers, Tony ^b   Sedefov, Roumen ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUG ADDICTION   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affordability; Cocaine; Europe; Heroin; Price; Purity; Purity adjusted price

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; ILLICIT DRUG; STREET DRUG;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BULGARIA; DRUG COST; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG PURITY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ESTONIA; FINLAND; GREECE; IRELAND; LATVIA; NETHERLANDS; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SWEDEN; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED KINGDOM; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COST; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COCAINE; COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EUROPE; HEROIN; HUMANS; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 85042122574     PISSN: 09553959     EISSN: 18734758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.01.021     Document Type: Article

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