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Today’s fentanyl crisis: Prohibition’s Iron Law, revisited
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beletsky, L., & Davis, C. S.
- Venue
- International Journal of Drug Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-08
- Volume
- 46
- Pages
- 156-159
- ISSN
- 0955-3959 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2737409744
- Cited by
- 283
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 17.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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