Video: Howard Parker on the Merseyside Heroin Epidemic

Footnotes

1) Paper: The New Heroin Users

H PARKER, R NEWCOMBE & K BAKX (British Journal of Addiction 1987)

2) Book: View From The Boys. A Sociology of Downtown Adolescents [ Howard J. Parker 1974]

View From The Boys. A Sociology of Downtown Adolescents [ Howard J. Parker 1974]

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Howard Parker on the Merseyside Heroin Epidemic