Supervised injecting centres
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Drug consumption facilities in Europe and the establishment of supervised injecting centres in Australia
Kate Dolan PhD, Senior Lecturer, Jo Kimber BSc(Psych)Hons, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales; Craig Fry BSc(Hons), Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Melbourne; John Fitzgerald PhD, Department of Criminology, Melbourne University; David McDonald MA, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, the Australian National University, Canberra, Au...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.328.7431.100