The Edinburgh Addiction Cohort: recruitment and follow-up of a primary care based sample of injection drug users and non drug-injecting controls

• Main Authors: Kimber Jo (Author), McKenzie James (Author), Hickman Matthew (Author), Copeland Lorraine (Author), Macleod John (Author), De Angelis Daniela (Author), Robertson James R (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2010-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Injection drug use is an important public health problem. Epidemiological understanding of this problem is incomplete as longitudinal studies in the general population are difficult to undertake. In particular little is known about e...