Association of school dropout with recent and past injecting drug use among African American adults
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It was hypothesized that starting and maintaining injecting drug use (IDU) in African American adults would be linked to dropping out of high school, and that starting and stopping IDU would be linked with earning the general equivalency diploma following school dropout. African American high school dropouts and GED holders were two to three times more likely to have begun and maintained IDU, compared to high school graduates, and earning the GED was linked with starting and then stopping IDU.
Publication Name: Addictive Behaviors
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0306-4603
Year: 1999
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From basic research to public health policy: WHO report on the neuroscience of substance dependence
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The World Health Organization (WHO) report on the 'Neuroscience of Psychoactive Substance Use and Dependence' represents a summary of the latest scientific knowledge on the role of the brain in substance dependence. The report reveals that the adverse consequences of psychoactive substance are related to the level, pattern, mode, and context of use and dependence is seen as a complex disorder involving brain mechanisms rather than a failure of will.
Publication Name: Addictive Behaviors
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0306-4603
Year: 2004
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Neuroscience research on the addictions: A prospectus for future ethical and policy analysis
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The increasing evidence that many addictive phenomena have a genetic and neurobiological basis promises improvements in societal responses to addiction that raise important ethical and social policy issues. Neuroscience research of addiction transform the long running debate between moral and medical models of addiction by providing a detailed casual explanation of addiction in terms of brain processes.
Publication Name: Addictive Behaviors
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0306-4603
Year: 2004
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