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. 2007 Apr;61(4):278-81.
doi: 10.1136/jech.2006.046334.

Illicit drugs and the rise of epidemiology during the 1960s

Alex Mold  1
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Illicit drugs and the rise of epidemiology during the 1960s

Alex Mold. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2007 Apr.

Abstract

Epidemiology has been crucial to the understanding of both tobacco smoking and illicit drug taking as public health issues in Britain since the 1960s. There were, however, significant differences in the way in which epidemiology was used between the two psychoactive substances.

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