Careers with Heroin

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Heroin use careers were examined within a sample of 147 Black male heroin addicts and their nonaddicted friends. Based on the extent of their heroin use, subjects were classified into the following subgroups: light experimenters, moderate experimenters, heavy experimenters and addicts. Evidently, no single career line or pattern characterizes all heroin users. While some users quickly progress from initiation to heroin to regular, intermittent use or chipping to daily heroin use and physical dependence, others are deflected at various points along the way. Some of the sociobehavioral processes or career contingencies associated with movement from 1 level of heroin use to the next were described.

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