The study of economic crisis in Greek population of drug users approaching KETHEA: socioeconomic factors and comorbidity between 2009 and 2014.
To study the effect of the financial crisis in Greece, with a population of drug users approaching the Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA) between 2009 and 2014. It includes two different samples: 2,900 drug users who approached KETHEA in 2009 and 2,338 individuals in 2014. The analysi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Substance Use Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 234 - 240 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2021
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