ALCOHOL-USE BY HEROIN-ADDICTS - EVIDENCE FOR AN INVERSE RELATIONSHIP - A STUDY OF METHADONE-MAINTENANCE AND DRUG-FREE TREATMENT SAMPLES
ALCOHOL-USE BY HEROIN-ADDICTS - EVIDENCE FOR AN INVERSE RELATIONSHIP - A STUDY OF METHADONE-MAINTENANCE AND DRUG-FREE TREATMENT SAMPLES
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DOI:
10.3109/00952998909092720
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发表时间:
1989-01-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
PETERS, KR
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作者:
ANGLIN, MD;ALMOG, IJ;PETERS, KR
This study examine the relationship between the patterns of use of alcohol and herioin by narctotics addicts, and evaluates the hypothesis-frequent reported during methadone maintenace that this form of treatment can be causally implicated in an increased consumption of alcohol. Data were obtained on lifetime patterns of alcohol and heroin use of 375 Anglo and Chicano male addicts sampled from two treatment sources: the nonmethadone (drug-free) California Civil Addict Program (CAP) and several Sourthern California Methadone Maintenance (MM) programs. Repeated-measures MANOVAs revealed that alcohol and heroin consumption were inversely related throughout the addicts'' careers. This pattern was evident in the addiction, treatment, and postdischarge stages of Anglo and Chicano addict careers, in both the CAP and MM samples. Consequently, the authors reject the hypothesis that increased alcohol consumption is caused by solely by addicts'' participationg in methadone maintenance treatment. Rather, the findings suggest that addicts'' alcohol use during methadone treatment reflects a lifetime pattern of increased alcohol use following any decline in heroin intake.