Social and legal factors related to drug abuse in the United States and Japan.

Autor: Greberman, Sharyn Bowman, Kiyoshi Wada
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Zdroj: Public Health Reports; Nov/Dec94, Vol. 109 Issue 6, p731, 7p, 1 Chart
Abstrakt: Offers an overview of social and legal differences in the United States and Japan that are related to patterns of current drug abuse epidemics in these countries. Discussion of the histories of opiate and cocaine abuse in the United States and inhalant abuse in Japan; The number of heroine epidemics that the United States has experienced in the last three decades; The first methamphetamine epidemic in Japan; More.
Databáze: Complementary Index