Mexico's Drug Policy Reform: Cutting Edge Success or Crisis in the Making?

Overview

Journal Int J Drug Policy

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Psychiatry
Public Health

Date 2014 Jun 30

PMID 24974368

Citations 14

Authors

Dan Werb

Maria Elena Medina Mora

Leo Beletsky

Claudia Rafful

Tim Mackey

Jaime Arredondo

Steffanie A Strathdee

Affiliations

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