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Original Article

Estimating the Size of a Heroin-Using Population: An Examination of the Use of Treatment Admissions Data

Ronald S Simeone ABT Associates Incorporated, 55 Wheeler Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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William T Nottingham ABT Associates Incorporated, 55 Wheeler Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Lynn Holland Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York
Pages 107-128 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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