Alcohol Use in the Opiate Use Cycle of the Heroin Addict
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 13 (7) , 1021-1033
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826087809039323
Abstract
Methadone maintained patients [96] selected at random from a private clinic were interviewed to explore lifetime patterns of alcohol use in relation to opiate use. Most addicts who ever drank excessively (in alcoholic, problem or heavy patterns) did so primarily during 2 periods: prior to becoming addicted to narcotics and during periods of voluntary abstinence from narcotics. Most of the addicts who were drinking in excessive patterns while maintained on methadone had pretreatment histories of similar alcohol use.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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