Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 84-90 , 5 January 2007

Patterns of acquisitive crime during methadone maintenance treatment among patients eligible for heroin assisted treatment

  • Bart P. van der Zanden

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, Room J1B-226, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 20 5668975; fax: +31 20 6912683.
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  • Marcel G.W. Dijkgraaf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, Room J1B-226, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Peter Blanken

      Affiliations

    • Central Committee on the Treatment of Heroin Addicts (CCBH), Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Jan M. van Ree

      Affiliations

    • Central Committee on the Treatment of Heroin Addicts (CCBH), Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology and Anatomy, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Wim van den Brink

      Affiliations

    • Central Committee on the Treatment of Heroin Addicts (CCBH), Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Received 28 February 2006 ,Revised 16 May 2006 ,Accepted 24 May 2006.

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PII: S0376-8716(06)00205-5

doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2006.05.021

Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 84-90 , 5 January 2007

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