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Explaining Drug Markets and Distribution Systems

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Chapter 13 presents and interprets numbers and statistics in relation to the British, Scottish and Shetland heroin trends and analyses these data.

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Stallwitz, A. (2012). Explaining Drug Markets and Distribution Systems. In: The Role of Community-Mindedness in the Self-Regulation of Drug Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3861-4_13

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