Re:I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
by n4r9 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:46AM
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> Which means that the other less common drugs must be a lot more addictive to bring the number down to 70%
There's a confounding variable: the difficulty of obtaining drugs vs alcohol. This causes a selection bias and means that a higher proportion of heroin users are addicts than otherwise would be. You can't necessarily deduce that heroin is more addictive from that (although there are other ways I'm sure).
There's a confounding variable: the difficulty of obtaining drugs vs alcohol. This causes a selection bias and means that a higher proportion of heroin users are addicts than otherwise would be. You can't necessarily deduce that heroin is more addictive from that (although there are other ways I'm sure).