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Historical Transitions of Urban Drug Markets and Scenes

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Chapter 14 depicts media reports on heroin on the Shetland Islands and relates these to the outcomes of the present study.

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Stallwitz, A. (2012). Historical Transitions of Urban Drug Markets and Scenes. 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_14

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