Pathways to Herion Abstinence:

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Reported here is a study of the effectiveness of treatment in reducing the duration of heroin careers, with a special focus on gender differences. The longitudinal research is based on a community representative sample of urban black youth, ages 18-23, and utilizes a recently introduce statistical methodology, event-history analysis. Simple hazard probability analysis confirmed that males and females did not differ significantly in their cumulative probabilites of abstinence from heroin. The more elaborated event-history model demonstrated, however, that treatment played a significantly different role among young men and women in attaining abstinence. While a man's likelihood of abstinence was but marginaly greater with treatment than without it, women's likelihood of abstinence was significantly increased by entering treatment.

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