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Research Article

The prevalence and characteristics of injecting drug users in Australia

Ian McAllister, Toni Makkai Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra; Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, Australia
Pages 29-36 | Published online: 12 Jul 2009

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