Non-Injection Drug Use Patterns and History of Injection among Street Youth
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Non-injection drug use patterns and history of injection among street youth.
AIMS Efforts to prevent youth from initiating injection drug use require an understanding of the drug use patterns that predispose to injecting. Here we identify such patterns and describe the circumstances of first injection among street youth. METHODS From October 2005 to November 2007, data were collected for the At Risk Youth Study, a prospective cohort of 560 street-recruited youth aged ...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Addiction Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1421-9891,1022-6877
DOI: 10.1159/000279767