Theories on Drug Abuse: Selected Contemporary PerspectivesDepartment of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 1980 - Drug abuse - 488 pages |
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... young men with almost no prior drinking experience vary widely in their response to alcohol in experimental studies ( Goodwin et al . 1969 ) . Some show almost no effect , while others are quite easily intoxicated . Since this ...
... young men with almost no prior drinking experience vary widely in their response to alcohol in experimental studies ( Goodwin et al . 1969 ) . Some show almost no effect , while others are quite easily intoxicated . Since this ...
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... young , the minor- ities , the poor . But later studies which have tapped other samples , and studies using matched - sample control groups , have tended to quiet the critics . Among physician addicts , for instance , the familiar eleva ...
... young , the minor- ities , the poor . But later studies which have tapped other samples , and studies using matched - sample control groups , have tended to quiet the critics . Among physician addicts , for instance , the familiar eleva ...
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... young children , such as occurs in infants born of addicted mothers , apparently never produces addiction . In India , a lower caste custom that involved keeping very young children quiet by providing them with opium often produced ...
... young children , such as occurs in infants born of addicted mothers , apparently never produces addiction . In India , a lower caste custom that involved keeping very young children quiet by providing them with opium often produced ...
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... young men sample heroin , although few actually become addicts . Those who do tend to drop their nonusing friends . It is known ( Smart and Fejer 1972 ; Kandel 1974 ) that drugs are frequently used by more than one member of a family ...
... young men sample heroin , although few actually become addicts . Those who do tend to drop their nonusing friends . It is known ( Smart and Fejer 1972 ; Kandel 1974 ) that drugs are frequently used by more than one member of a family ...
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... to longer term costs and benefits associated with use ; and a clearer recognition of the obstacles to achievement of important life goals posed by continu- ation of use . Among children and young adults , examples of altered life 55.
... to longer term costs and benefits associated with use ; and a clearer recognition of the obstacles to achievement of important life goals posed by continu- ation of use . Among children and young adults , examples of altered life 55.
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