Hitting up in the Top End: characteristics of needle exchange clients in Darwin

Objective : Little is known about injecting drug use (IDU) and blood‐borne viral (BBV) infection in rural Australia.

• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

• Publication date

  2000-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2000.tb00729.xPMID 10777985
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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