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As far as you know. Firstly, the study is about the onset of addiction from one single experience with the drug. People that take a drug once and decide to not
by TelmoMenezes 13y ago
As far as you know. Firstly, the study is about the onset of addiction from one single experience with the drug. People that take a drug once and decide to not do it again don't attract the same social and media attention as heavy users. Similarly, if functional users of hard drugs exist, you are unlikely to hear about them. This is one of the effects of the drug prohibition: it hides a lot of data.
More worryingly, science becomes compromised when researchers cannot attract funding to explore unpopular hypothesis.
- westicle 13y agoThis. People assume that all opiate users are crackheads committing armed robbery. Many are highly skilled, highly paid professionals. I must confess a certain amount of cognitive dissonance seeing middle-aged men in tailored suits scoring heroin on the street!
- redblacktree 13y agoThese days there is no need for that. They can just visit a "pain clinic" and get a prescription.
- westicle 13y agoApparently not in St Kilda.
- girvo 13y agoI was :) I even ran a startup while I was using. Heroin is not a drug that discriminates.