The Illicit Use and Diversion of Methadone on the Street as Related by Hospitalized Addicts

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In addition, each individual might report more than one way he had obtained diverted methadone, so percentages in this section do not total to 100 per cent, nor do raw numbers total to 76, the subsample size.

Markham , op. cit.

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