Heroin smoking by 'chasing the dragon': Origins and history

Addiction

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 673-683

  Strang, John ^a   Griffiths, Paul ^a   Gossop, Michael ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ARTICLE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG USE; HUMAN; INGESTION; SMOKING; VAPOR;

EID: 8544269372     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1997.tb02927.x     Document Type: Article

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