The Drug Use Index: A Measure of the Extent of Polydrug Usage
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 13 (6) , 981-993
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826087809039318
Abstract
A drug use index (DUI) was constructed from actual usage data of 1121 human respondents (517 males and 604 females). This index probably represents a quantitative measure of the degree of involvement in polydrug use. Correlations between the DUI and use of 19 drugs or drug classes were reported. Some applications of the DUI were demonstrated with specific reference to 4 psycho-personality tests.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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