Heroin prescribing in the "British System" of the mid 1990s: data from the 1995 national survey of community pharmacies in England and Wales.

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Drug and Alcohol Review

• Publication date

  1997-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1080/09595239700186281PMID 16203406
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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