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Drug Abuse
Research results from University of Kentucky update understanding of drug abuse
July 11th, 2009
"The discipline of epidemiology utilizes the constructs of agent, host, vector and environment to study the incidence and prevalence (i.e., the nature, extent, distribution, correlates) and the contexts, and consequences of drug abuse in the United States," investigators in the United States report. "This paper provides a selected review of the results of 40 years of epidemiological study of drug abuse using surveillance systems, general population surveys, ethnography and qualitative research approaches. It then addresses the challenges in conducting research on drug abuse epidemiology," wrote R.R. Clayton and colleagues, University of Kentucky. The...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-07-11)
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