The consumption of khat and other drugs in Somali combatants: a cross-sectional study.
BACKGROUND: For more than a decade, most parts of Somalia have not been under the control of any type of government. This "failure of state" is complete in the central and southern regions and most apparent in Mogadishu, which had been for a long period in the hands of warlords deploying t...
Main Authors: | Michael Odenwald, Harald Hinkel, Elisabeth Schauer, Frank Neuner, Maggie Schauer, Thomas R Elbert, Brigitte Rockstroh |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-12-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2121109?pdf=render |
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