New estimates of the number of children living with substance misusing parents: results from UK national household surveys
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The existing estimates of there being 250,000 - 350,000 children of problem drug users in the UK (ACMD, 2003) and 780,000 - 1.3 million children of adults with an alcohol problem (AHRSE, 2004) are extrapolations of treatment data alo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-10-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/377 |