Sensation Seeking and Drug Choice
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 18 (8) , 1039-1048
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088309027368
Abstract
Sensation Seeking Scale scores were obtained from 2 groups of drug program clients: polydrug users and opiate and depressant drug users. Polydrug users scored higher in sensation seeking than depressant users; and this effect was independent of demographic differences between groups. Apparently, the sensation-seeking motive may be a significant factor for polydrug, but not depressant abuse patterns.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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