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Characteristics of Smoked Drug Use Among Cocaine Smokers
Author(s) -
Gorelick David A.,
Simmons Michael S.,
Carriero Nicholas,
Tashkin Donald P.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1997.tb00403.x
Subject(s) - drug , medicine , psychology , pharmacology
The authors collected data by structured interview from a convenience sample of 228 physically healthy, largely (82%) treatment‐seeking, cocaine smokers with minimal histories of other smoked (other than tobacco and marijuana) or injection drug use. The vast majority of subjects also smoked either marijuana only (17.5%), tobacco only (17%), or both (61%), with onset of such smoking almost always (97%) preceding the initiation of regular cocaine smoking. There were few significant differences in sociodemographic or cocaine use characteristics among the subgroups of subjects smoking either cocaine only or cocaine and marijuana and/or tobacco. More than one‐third of marijuana smokers quit (45%) or decreased (38%) their use after starting regular cocaine smoking, whereas only 5% of tobacco smokers did so. These findings suggest that marijuana smoking is more influenced by regular cocaine smoking than is tobacco smoking.