Synthesis of qualitative research on drug use in the European Union: report on an EMCDDA project. European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

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Published in Eur Addict Res on March 01, 1999

Authors

J Fountain1, P Griffiths

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1: National Addiction Centre (NAC), London, UK. j.fountain@iop.bpmf.ac.uk

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