Cocaine and heroin dependence compared: evidence from an epidemiologic field survey.
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 79 (10) , 1409-1410
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.79.10.1409
Abstract
Analyzing self-report interview data from a multi-site collaborative study of mental disorders in the community, we examined suspected differences between 611 cocaine users and 126 heroin users in relation to indicators of drug dependence. Cocaine users were less likely to report dependence-related problems as compared to heroin users. These epidemiologic sample data underscore concerns about the generalizability of published clinical sample data on self-reported cocaine dependence.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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