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A survey of twenty-two young narcotic addicts suggests that socially damaging forms of drug selling, or “pushing”, must be discriminated from those which are socially irrelevant. This could have an important bearing on the way that current legislation is applied in Britain.
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MACSWEENEY, D., PARR, D. Drug Pushers in the United Kingdom. Nature 228, 422–424 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228422a0
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