Illicit drugs and the rise of epidemiology during the 1960s.

Alex Mold

; (2007) Illicit drugs and the rise of epidemiology during the 1960s. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 61 (4). pp. 278-281. ISSN 0143-005X DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.046334

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Epidemiology has been crucial to the understanding of both tobacco smoking and illicit drug taking as public health issues in Britain since the 1960s. There were, however, significant differences in the way in which epidemiology was used between the two psychoactive substances.