{"title":"Status of drug abuse and its treatment in Iran.","authors":"J Razani","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75432,"journal":{"name":"Addictive diseases","volume":"3 1","pages":"69-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12113163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incidence of first use of a drug: significance and interpretations.","authors":"L G Hunt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75432,"journal":{"name":"Addictive diseases","volume":"3 2","pages":"177-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11821138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Interviews with a nationwide smaple of young and low-income black, chicano, and Caribbean men and women, as well as their non-minority counterparts, reveal that the majority disapprove of illicit drug use. Although one-half of the youth report having had experience with illicit drugs, most have renounced their involvement and no longer use them. Of the racial or ethnic groups queried, white youth are most likely to have ingested illicit drugs. These data, coupled with other findings drawn from a more lengthy report, lead to the conclusion that dysfunctional patterns of drug ingestion among many low-income minorities are not pronounced.
{"title":"Drug use among minority youth.","authors":"V Myers","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interviews with a nationwide smaple of young and low-income black, chicano, and Caribbean men and women, as well as their non-minority counterparts, reveal that the majority disapprove of illicit drug use. Although one-half of the youth report having had experience with illicit drugs, most have renounced their involvement and no longer use them. Of the racial or ethnic groups queried, white youth are most likely to have ingested illicit drugs. These data, coupled with other findings drawn from a more lengthy report, lead to the conclusion that dysfunctional patterns of drug ingestion among many low-income minorities are not pronounced.</p>","PeriodicalId":75432,"journal":{"name":"Addictive diseases","volume":"3 2","pages":"187-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11821139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International survey of drug abuse. Introduction.","authors":"J C Ball, H Graff, J P Smith","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75432,"journal":{"name":"Addictive diseases","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12114394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The present status of drug dependence in Australia.","authors":"D S Bell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75432,"journal":{"name":"Addictive diseases","volume":"3 1","pages":"115-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12114397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
To explore the social dynamics of heroin spread in endemic neighborhoods, a research team conducted interviews with active addicts in two inner-city black neighborhoods in Chicago. Unlike epidemic neighborhoods in which heroin often spreads outward from only a few new users to other members of a friendship group, we found that in these "old dope" neighborhoods there were multiple initiators and multiple, discrete heroin outbreaks not connected with one another. Furthermore, the majority of initiators did not appear to be in the experimental stage but were chronic addicts who ranged in age from their early twenties to middle age. These findings suggest that in endemic neighborhoods, where heroin is continuously available and there are multiple addict initiators, treatment outreach efforts directed only at new, young users would be unlikely to halt further heroin spread. To effectively reduce incidence and prevalence of heroin addiction, it may be necessary to eliminate the entire neighborhood copping area--chronic addicts as well as new addicts--a much more formidable task for a community addiction-control program.
{"title":"The dynamics of heroin spread in endemic neighborhoods.","authors":"G A Crawford, P H Hughes, M F Kohler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To explore the social dynamics of heroin spread in endemic neighborhoods, a research team conducted interviews with active addicts in two inner-city black neighborhoods in Chicago. Unlike epidemic neighborhoods in which heroin often spreads outward from only a few new users to other members of a friendship group, we found that in these \"old dope\" neighborhoods there were multiple initiators and multiple, discrete heroin outbreaks not connected with one another. Furthermore, the majority of initiators did not appear to be in the experimental stage but were chronic addicts who ranged in age from their early twenties to middle age. These findings suggest that in endemic neighborhoods, where heroin is continuously available and there are multiple addict initiators, treatment outreach efforts directed only at new, young users would be unlikely to halt further heroin spread. To effectively reduce incidence and prevalence of heroin addiction, it may be necessary to eliminate the entire neighborhood copping area--chronic addicts as well as new addicts--a much more formidable task for a community addiction-control program.</p>","PeriodicalId":75432,"journal":{"name":"Addictive diseases","volume":"3 2","pages":"141-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11821136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treatment report from Thailand.","authors":"C A Showanasai","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75432,"journal":{"name":"Addictive diseases","volume":"3 1","pages":"89-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12113166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An overview on drug abuse in Italy.","authors":"R Zerbetto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75432,"journal":{"name":"Addictive diseases","volume":"3 1","pages":"43-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12113154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}