Heroin Abuse Indicators: A Test of Recent Assumptions
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 15 (1) , 115-124
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826087109045547
Abstract
Recent substance abuse literature discusses the measurement of heroin abuse prevalence using an indirect method of indicator analysis. Medical and legal indicators are assumed to be related to each other and to prevalence in specific directions. The present study tests the relationship between six commonly used indicators. The results indicate that not all assumed relationships are obtained in the predicted direction and implications of this for future prevalence study are discussed.Keywords
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