Special Focus on Middle East and North Africa Sponsored by Global Commission on Drug Policy
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ING/INDEXING: CINAHL(R) database/CUMULATIVE INDEX TO NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH LITERATURE(R) print index; Addiction Abstracts; Criminal Justice Abstracts; Excerpta Medica/EMBASE; Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS); Sociological Abstracts; Social Services Abstracts; Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA); International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS). Also covered in the abstract and citation database Scopus®. Full text available on ScienceDirect®. Editorial Board Atul Ambekar, India Apinun Aramrattana, Thailand Tasnim Azim, Bangladesh Andrew Ball, Switzerland Damon Barrett, UK Francisco Bastos, Brazil Kirsten Bell, Canada David Bewley-Taylor, UK Ricky Bluthenthal, USA Chris Bonell, UK Martin Bouchard, Canada Waleska Caiaffa, Brazil Patricia Carrieri, France Jia-Shin Chen, Taiwan Ross Coomber, UK Louisa Degenhardt, Australia Cameron Duff, Australia Adam Fletcher, UK Suzanne Fraser, Australia Craig Fry, Australia Sandro Galea, USA Vivian Go, USA Magdalena Harris, UK Robert Heimer, USA Fiona Hutton, New Zealand Margaretha Jarvinen, Denmark Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Malaysia Thomas Kerr, Canada Jo Kimber, Australia Stephen Koester, USA Suresh Kumar, India Alisher Latypov, Slovakia Rick Lines, UK Charlie Lloyd, UK Catherine McGowan, UK Susanne McGregor, UK Katherine McLean, USA Peter Meylakhs, Russian Federation David Moore, Australia Bronwyn Myers, South Africa Jo Neale, UK Adhi Wibowo Nurhidayat, Indonesia Rosalie Pacula, USA Samiran Panda, India Kane Race, Australia Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Iran Craig Reinarman, USA Peter Reuter, USA Diana Rossi, Argentina Akihiko Sato, Japan Mukta Sharma, UK Kate Shannon, Canada Susan Sherman, USA Steffanie A. Strathdee, USA Carla Treloar, Australia Sebastien Tutenges, Denmark Peter Vickerman, UK Darin Weinberg, UK Daniel Wolfe, USA Evan Wood, Canada Zunyou Wu, China
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