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Trends in the Commission of Crime among Narcotic Addicts over Successive Periods of Addiction and Nonaddiction (Informa Healthcare)

David N. Nurco Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of, Medicine, Maryland, 21217; Friends Medical Science Research Center, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 21217
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John W. Shaffer Department of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205
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John C. Ball Department of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19140
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Timothy W. Kinlock Friends Medical Science Research Center, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 21217
Pages 481-489 | Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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