Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7514688 | International Journal of Drug Policy | 2012 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Prescription opioid misuse was a key feature of trajectories into injection drug use and/or heroin use amongst this sample of young IDUs. A new pattern of drug use may be emerging whereby IDUs initiate prescription opioid misuse before using heroin.
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Authors
Stephen E. Lankenau, Michelle Teti, Karol Silva, Jennifer Jackson Bloom, Alex Harocopos, Meghan Treese,