Tuesday, 16. January 2007
Topic: DRUGS - on January 16, 2007 at 10:21:00 AM CET
Study questions "gateway" theory of drug abuse
The findings call into question the "gateway" hypothesis - that is, that youths at risk of drug abuse progress from using alcohol and cigarettes to illegal "soft" drugs like marijuana to "hard" drugs like cocaine and heroin, Dr. Ralph E. Tarter of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and colleagues write in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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