International Journal of Drug Policy
Volume 13, Issue 3 , Pages 175-184 , September 2002

Governing failure: politics, heroin, families

  • Heather Brook

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,Accepted 1 February 2002.

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International Journal of Drug Policy
Volume 13, Issue 3 , Pages 175-184 , September 2002