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Marijuana and Heroin: A Study of Initiation of Drug Use by Heroin Addicts
Author(s) -
Duncan David F.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1975.tb00026.x
Subject(s) - heroin , drug , heroin dependence , addiction , psychology , psychiatry , medicine , pharmacology
Many studies have explored the question of whether or not marijuana use leads to heroin use. An unstated assumption in most of these studies seems to be the presupposition that marijuana use was the drug user's initiation into use of drugs. In two samples of ex‐heroin addicts it was found that a majority of the subjects had not begun their drug use with marijuana.